VS Code is a web dev IDE. Microsoft has lost the mobile platform wars and pushing the web is a way of countering that. Plus, web and azure do go hand-in-hand, as you point out.
> VS Code supports tasks that you can configure to build your application, and natively understands the output of MSBuild, CSC, and XBuild.
(To be clear I'm asking what workflow users use personally, since it seems like nobody else has this issue.)
There's a big JSON file with the debug configurations, and a drop-down to allow you to select which one is active. Each gdb debug configuration lets you specify the usual binary path and command line arguments, plus a whole lot of other configuration I haven't looked at. I haven't had to do any project-style setup --- it just magically finds all my source files.
It looks like it supports gdb on Windows and Linux and lldb on OSX (only ever tested on Linux, though). Out-of-the-box you get sample configurations to both run and attach to a C/C++ binary.
gdb integration is pretty seamless; breakpoints, conditional breakpoints, stack traces, local and global variables. Haven't seen threads, watchpoints, or an assembly window yet. There's a debug console, but entering commands doesn't appear to send them to gdb.
It's one of the best Linux gdb environments I've seen (even though most gdb integrations are terrible).
If you attach or launch more than one process, that's where they will appear also, as top-level tree nodes.
Samsung and Asus ones seem to have been the surviving brands and even they have Win10 devices on their brand sections.
Or the fact that all new APIs are mostly UWP only?
That could just be a regional anomaly.
On the other hand, speaking about regional anomalies, I almost never seen Chromebooks on sale, or people using them. Yet they apparently sell like hot cakes in US.
Jokes apart, I have noticed that in developing countries (I regularly visit Thailand for example) Android tablets are still more common than Win 10 ones, I believe it's because in those countries many people were first exposed to computing in the form of a smartphone, so they prefer a mobile OS like Android, whereas in the western world most people (except perhaps very young people) were accustomed to use a personal computer long before they even had a smartphone.