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I\u2019ve been working for almost a year implementing micro-services on C++11 running as Docker containers. Through my journey I\u2019ve seen to emerge quite a bunch of interesting tools to work with C++ on this field (micro-services and Docker).<\/p>\n

I started using Xcode on Mac OS X (now macOS). Even when Xcode is a fine tool to work on a C++ project, with a very appealing UI and an not a super good debugging experience but useful IMHO, it has a really annoying feature: it is constantly indexing the code while I\u2019m typing it and, in consequence, spinning my MacBook Pro\u2019s fans up to 5000 rpm and making it really hot. I tried disabling all code completion options in preferences<\/strong> without any success. This made me think about returning to Emacs which, even when I used it in the past, I would say I\u2019m not an expert and re-loading it in my brain will take me some time to interiorize the shortcut keys and so on, so I thought about looking for something similar but modern, for that I passed through TextMate, Atom, Sublime and Visual Studio Code<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Visual Studio Code (VSC from now on) has a similar idea as Emacs has, to provide a very simple editing tool but powerful at the same time providing the full development cycle (editing, building and debugging all inside the tool). It runs with native performance on Windows, OS X and Linux and with a very adaptive UI that looks and feels native to the OS where it runs, which is a plus.<\/p>\n

At the time I started working on my micro-services project, VSC was quite new and there was not full support for C++ except for the syntax coloring and some very experimental integration with GDB and LLDB, but today after less than a year VSC is quite operational on the C++ development cycle, you can integrate it with CMake and build a C++ project from inside VSC and not only to use CMake but to use a C++ Debugger (GDB or LLDB) inside VSC.<\/p>\n

So this article is about the steps I followed to configure VSC to work with C++, CMake and LLDB.<\/p>\n

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