Microsoft has made its Pylance language server the default on the Python extension for Visual Studio Code.

Pylance is now the default language server for Python in Visual Studio Code, providing IntelliSense functionality as of the May 2021 release of the Python Extension for VS Code.

Microsoft announced more improvements for the new Python language server for Visual Studio Code, Pylance, specializing in rich type information.

Microsoft says its new Pylance language server will make Python developers who use VS Code far more productive.