Migration path for open-source vscode users?

[JacobHenner]

According to the Pylance release announcement:

Our long-term plan is to transition our Microsoft Python Language Server users over to Pylance and eventually deprecate and remove the old language server as a supported option.

While this seems reasonable at first, it leaves open-source VS Code users high and dry. Pylance is not open source, it does not run in open source distributions of VS Code, and it does not seem like it's expected to be open-sourced any time soon.

What are open-source VS Code users to do?

While I'd certainly like to see Pylance open sourced, I'd hope MSFT would at least support the Microsoft Python Language Server until a true alternative was available.

[savannahostrowski]

Hey @JacobHenner!

We have no plans to open-source Pylance at this time. You are still able to use the Microsoft Python Language Server or Jedi as open-source options as a language server in VSCode. Alternatively, you might also find that installing Pyright suits your needs. It's open-source and includes a large subset of Pylance functionality.