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Python language support with extension access points for IntelliSense (Pylance), Debugging (Python Debugger), linting, formatting, refactoring, unit tests, and more.
Daily readings on both stores, taken by us. As of 24 Sept 2026.
Each bar is one day’s change in the store’s own counter. Open VSX counts a download on every update, so a day includes updates by people who already had it. Days before 5 Sept are reconstructed from public archives rather than read by us.
Positions observed daily on both stores. Neither store publishes this, and the two run separate search engines over separate catalogues.
#14 on Marketplace for “language-model-tools”, nowhere on Open VSX.
| Search | Marketplace | Open VSX |
|---|---|---|
| debuggers | #38of 1,519 | #150of 514↓5 7d |
| language-model-tools | #14of 727 | — |
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VS Code Marketplace search ranking: measuring jitter and real movement →
1,076 releases · 150 reviews across both stores · first published Jan 2016
Why the Open VSX download count looks inflated →
Downloads count every update, not unique installs.
Python’s own readme, changelog and license, as published to the VS Code Marketplace.