I haven’t tried out the VSCode yet, I just read what was posted about it, and the problems people were having with it, but once I next change to a new project or when I have time, I will likely try it out.
What I am looking for in a debugging environment is something that allows me to work fast and efficiently. That means a debugger that is: fast, reliable, where I can start the debugging of my code in seconds, insert breakpoints with a single click, analyse the stack when an error is encountered, and easily step forward/into code.
Furthermore the debugger should ideally be able to handle both code running on CPU and GPU, since all my work these days involves machine learning.
As an example, my current project, involves coding up a neural network similar to BERT, with about 500 M parameters, that will be training on on about 2 TB of genetic data for a few weeks.