Is this Windows only? I downloaded VS 2017 on OS X and the installer does not show the option "Web & Cloud > Python Development" as described in this link[0].
[0]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/python/install...
[0]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/python/install...
VS Mac doesn't support VS extensions. And a lot of other VS things.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14308754
Basically, it's not a full port, and it's probably not ever going to be, but they're trying to gradually make them more alike in terms of features.
In that regard they had to start somewhere, and as such, .NET was the obvious candidate for a first release.