S1 Episode 4 - Kartik Raj

Sad Python Girls Club

Welcome to the 4th episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! This time we are chatting with Kartik Raj, one of the software engineers working on the Python extension for Visual Studio Code 🐍. In this episode we talk about Kartik’s journey on the team (including a funny story on the first time he met Brett Cannon 👀), his work on improving the discovery of Python environments and what’s coming next in that area ⏭️.

A few links for the things we talked about in this episode:

• Using Python environments in VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/environments
• Feature request to no longer store interpreter path on settings.json: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/2125
• Discussion on the proposed design for environments API: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/discussions/18888
• Pylint extension: https://aka.ms/vscode-pylint
• Summer of 69 by Bryan Adams: https://youtu.be/9f06QZCVUHg

Intro Song: Pastel
Producer: Blue.P
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