Consider adding the ability to run an application in release or debug mode from @main

[fwgreen]

The Java IDE supports this feature:

Why not Swift?

[adam-fowler]

Not sure what you mean exactly here. You can run both debug and release via F5. You select which target via the debugger

[fwgreen]

My apologies. What I really meant, but didn't know the actual name, was the Run | Debug CodeLens. Maybe it's only slightly more discoverable than going to the run menu and not worth the effort.

[adam-fowler]

I had a little investigation to see how they implemented this. They use a custom LSP resolveMainMethod and setup a CodeLens that uses this command to get position of the main function. As this involves a new custom SourceKit-LSP command I'm not sure this is worth the hassle.

As an aside I have thought of adding context menu entries for running/debugging swift executables. This might make them a little more discoverable.

[adam-fowler]

Looks like we might get the sourcekit-lsp support swiftlang/sourcekit-lsp#797

[plemarquand]

Support has been added for this in sourcekit-lsp and vscode-swift (#973). Once a new vscode-swift is released you'll need a new sourcekit-lsp to see these code lenses.