Microsoft has added official Python support to Aspire 13, expanding the platform beyond .NET and JavaScript for building and running distributed apps. Documented today in a Microsoft DevBlogs post, ...

Sometimes, reading Python code just isn’t enough to see what’s really going on. You can stare at lines for hours and still miss how variables change, or why a bug keeps popping up. That’s where a ...

The Python team at Microsoft is continuing its overhaul of environment management in Visual Studio Code, with the August 2025 release advancing the controlled rollout of the new Python Environments ...

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AI Still Struggles to Debug Code, But for How Long? Many of the world's most popular AI tools, such as those from OpenAI and Anthropic, are not yet debugging pros, according to Microsoft Research, but ...

There are few areas where AI has seen more robust deployment than the field of software development. From “vibe” coding to GitHub Copilot to startups building quick-and-dirty applications with support ...

Microsoft Research has introduced debug-gym, a novel environment designed to train AI coding tools in the complex art of debugging code. As AI’s role in software development expands, debug-gym aims to ...

AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and other top AI labs are increasingly being used to assist with programming tasks. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in October that 25% of new code at the company is ...

The ongoing proliferation of AI coding tools is not only boosting developers’ efficiency, it also signals a future where AI will generate a growing share of all new code. GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke ...

An unknown threat actor is deploying a large-scale, sophisticated cryptojacking campaign through a series of malicious extensions in Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s lightweight source-code editor, ...