At least in theory the debugging experience should be fairly similar at this point between Juno and VS Code? I think the one feature we don’t have in the VS Code debugger is a fine grained stepping command for multiple instructions on one line (but support for that is improving in the next version of VS Code that should ship in about a week), other than that I’m not aware of any missing features. If there are, please open an issue over at GitHub - julia-vscode/julia-vscode: Julia extension for Visual Studio Code, we’re trying to come up with a complete list of things that are missing on the VS Code side for feature parity with Juno. We don’t have docs for the debugger, the next best thing is my announcement at [ANN] VS Code extension v0.15 released - with debugger and the generic VS Code debugging docs.
I think that is probably the area where VS Code is strongest, IMO. Take a look at the remote documentation.
Agreed with everything else you wrote 