Debugging Rust in Visual Code

I’m using Visual Code a lot for Rust development, so it’d be good to be able to debug a Rust application within it. Simply change the settings.json file, i.e. 

File | Preferences | Settings

from the settings.json and now add

"debug.allowBreakpointsEverywhere": true,

Now add the C/C++ Microsoft extension if you’ve not already added it to Visual Code.

Next up, select

Debug | Add Configuration...

and the option

C++ (Windows)

Here’s my resultant launch.json file

{
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "(Windows) Launch",
      "type": "cppvsdbg",
      "request": "launch",
      "program": "${workspaceFolder}/target/debug/test.exe",
      "args": [],
      "stopAtEntry": false,
      "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
      "environment": [],
      "externalConsole": false
    }
  ]
}

and that’s it, now add a break point to your application, select Debug | Start Debugging (F5) and you’re off and running in the debugger.