This IDE is largely intended for on-the-fly interactions with libraries, where you type commands into Python’s REPL or execute individual files rather than do formal application development.

The Positron IDE is available in public beta as of today for macOS, Windows, and Linux. Created by Boston-based Posit PBC, formerly RStudio, Positron is based on Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code.

“IDEs and editors such as PyCharm and Visual Studio Code take advantage of type annotations to provide code completion, to highlight errors, and to support better go to definition functionality ...