Python for VS Code installation problem: "This extension is deprecated as it is no longer being maintained."

> This extension is deprecated as it is no longer being maintained

Why is this message showing? Is it a problem? If so, how can fix it?

I reached out the VS Code maintainers and asked about why the tht13.python got marked as deprecated- the regular procedure for extension deprecation at the time of this writing is either for the extension maintainer to reach out the VS Code maintainers and ask for the extension to be marked as deprecated, or for another party to ask the VS Code maintainers to reach out the the extension maintainer, but I didn't see paper trails for either of those things happening. A VS Code maintainer (Isidor Nikolic) replied:

> The VS Marketplace team reached out multiple times to the author - Thomas Haakon Townsend. After 6 months there was no reply, and that in conjunction with the fact that the extension has not been updated in 7+ years we decided to mark it as deprecated.
If Thomas disagrees he can reach out to us and we can make it to be no longer deprecated.

I suggest that you use the Microsoft Python extension instead: ms-python.python. Also, I'm pretty sure that deprecation doesn't mean you can't keep using it... so you could also just... keep using it. To my understanding, deprecation usually means "the maintainers are no longer going to be giving support on this thing, and ideally you would move to using some other better thing like it."