Overwhelmed by the Simplicity of Python. Any Recommendation?

[Michael Torrie]

On 11/07/2018 01:31 PM, MRAB wrote:
> On 2018-11-07 09:20, Thomas Jollans wrote:
>> I'll just take this opportunity to point out (for those that don't know)
>> that Visual Studio Code (an open source cross-platform programmer's text
>> editor of the same calibre as Sublime or Atom, not an IDE) has great
>> support for (graphical) debugging of Python code. Not tedious to set up,
>> particularly. Obviously there are plugins for other editors, but they're
>> usually not this well-integrated.
>>
> I find that the code does run more slowly, though.

Why?  Python is python, isn't it?  Usually code runs slower in a
debugger.  Isn't VS code using pdb under the hood?