Dear all,

Developers of Cpptools <https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-cpptools> plugin 
for Visual Studio Code (a free source code editor developed by Microsoft for 
Windows, Linux and macOS with support for debugging, embedded Git control, 
syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, and code 
refactoring) are considering 
<https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/1723#issuecomment-376329029>
 doing a (minor) extension to support debugging of MPI with GUI using lldb/gdb.
Before committing to do this work, they want to see enough interest from 
community who use MPI. 
If you are interested in having this feature, please leave a comment or 
thumb-up a feature request on this GitHub issue page 
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/1723 
<https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-cpptools/issues/1723> 

p.s. I have no affiliation with this project, I just develop with MPI and often 
need to debug MPI code.
I think that Visual Studio Code have potential for a good GUI to debug jobs 
with about 4-8 MPI cores,
which is often enough to catch bugs.
Their GUI already supports simultaneously attaching debuggers to processes (see 
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_20#_node-debugging 
<https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_20#_node-debugging> ),
I think it’s only a matter of using this feature of VS Code in the official C++ 
plugin to provide support for MPI.

Regards,
Denis.
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