microsoft / microsoft/vscode-java-debug

No-config debugging

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Since Jul 28, 2025.

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Description

Your colleagues over at vscode-python-debugger have implemented no-config debugging https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python-debugger/issues/561

Would be very useful if it was implemented for Java as well.

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