One feature explicitly not planned is support for Python 2; Microsoft doesn’t intended to offer it. By contrast, Mypy, and many other code-linting and type-checking tools for Python, do offer it.

A new open source VS Code extension called pyright has been created as a Microsoft 'side project' to improve on current offerings for static type checking for the Python programming language.

How can you balance these needs? That is, how can you enjoy Python as a dynamically typed language, while simultaneously getting some added sense of static-typing stability? One of the most popular ...

But annotating four million lines of Python code in this way isn’t a straightforward task, here are some of the lesser-known benefits and how Dropbox accomplished the task.

GitHub users can now customize the Microsoft platform's code-checking feature with third-party scanning tools.