As a user of Visual Studio since about VS 5, I’ve become accustomed to being able to debug. With VS Code, it’s also been easy but now that I program in C and Rust, the codelldb extension makes things very easy. You need other extensions: for Rust- the Rust Analyzer extension and for C/C++ the Microsoft C/C++ extension.

And for debugging for both the codelldb extension which is shown.  It uses the usual Microsoft debugging keys: F5 to start F10 to step over, F11 to step into and F9 to toggle a breakpoint.

Below is an example of debugging a Rust program.