Difficulties configuring debugger as a first-time user

Brief Issue Summary

I found it difficult to work out how to enable C++ debugging when I first started using VS Code a couple of weeks ago.

On both macOS and Windows my experience was as follows:

• installed VS code
• installed recommended C/C++ extensions (C/C++, CMake, CMake Tools, C/C++ themes)
• loaded a folder containing a CMakeLists.txt file
• built the project

Then I choose the Run & Debug option in the UI, and could see it wasn't configured. Fair enough, so I clicked on the option to Create a launch.json file.

This popped up a menu in the command palette offering only "Node.js" and two entries for "Web App", but nothing related to C/C++.

I couldn't for the life of me see how to configure a C/C++ debugger on either platform, despite reading a lot of documentation.

In the end I stumbled upon it; I choose to create a launch json for Node.js (even though this isn't what I wanted for C/C++).

Now that I had a launch.json created, I noticed a blue button bottom right, "Add Config".

When I clicked this button, I finally got the options to configure a C/C++ debugger (different ones according to whether I was trying this on macOS and Windows).

I then just needed to delete the entry in launch.json for Node.js to leave things correctly configured.

My feedback is that I very nearly gave up on this software due to the above and that the extensions I installed should have allowed me to directly create the correct json file.

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Reproduce the reported workflow on macOS and Windows: install the C/C++ and CMake extensions, open a folder with CMakeLists.txt, build it, and use Run & Debug to create launch.json. Compare the initial Create a launch.json options with the later Add Config options; done means a first-time C++ user can directly configure the appropriate debugger without creating and deleting a Node.js entry.