One of the questions I often ask at the end of the show is,

when you write some Python code, what editor do you use?

Increasingly, the most common answer is Visual Studio Code.

Despite its Windows-only namesake, Visual Studio Code is cross-platform

and has been gaining a lot of traction in the Python space.

I was at the Microsoft Build Conference immediately after Pycon this May. There I got a chance to

sit down with Dan Taylor from the VSCode team to discuss what they've been up to with VSCode and

Python. This is Talk Python to Me, episode 21 podcast on Python, the language, the libraries, the ecosystem, and the personalities.

This is your host, Michael Kennedy. Follow me on

Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy. Keep up with the show and listen to past episodes at talk python.

And follow the show on Twitter via at talk python. This episode is sponsored by Linode and

Backlog. Please check out what they're offering during their segments. It really helps support

the show. Dan, welcome to Talk Python. Hi, it's great to be here. It's great to have you on the show,

and we get one of these special opportunities to do an in-person recording with each other, right?

Before we get into the normal flow, I just want to say, hey, we're here at Microsoft Build,

recording live, not in a live audience, but in person and sort of on the

floor here. So it's really, really cool. It's great to be here. And we're going to talk a bit about

that. Also about PyCon. But, you know, let's start at the beginning. Start with your story.

How do you get into programming and Python? Programming, I've kind of had like a computer,

386 computer since I was like five years old at my house, right? And so I was,

I was doing a lot of like batch file stuff and DOS and things like that, but I remember batch

files. That used to feel like pretty awesome programming stuff, right? You would be able to

...