Visual Studio Code code-d serve-d beta release

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You might remember the blog post from a while back about 
workspace-d and serve-d, I just released a beta version on the 
visual studio marketplace that allows you to try out the latest 
features of serve-d. Note that this version might easily break in 
the future, but for the next few days I am trying to gain some 
feedback. If you are a user of code-d and if you want to try out 
the new version please uninstall code-d and install code-d-beta 
(https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=webfreak.code-d-beta, it's version 0.16.1) and just try to use it.

You no longer need workspace-d or dfmt with this release as both 
are included inside serve-d now which replaces most of the plugin 
which was written in typescript before. Now that serve-d uses 
Microsoft's language server protocol we get a fully featured D 
IDE for vscode, eclipse, emacs, GNOME builder, atom and theia 
with very little effort to implement them! For all the basic 
features you can simply start serve-d with the `--require D` 
argument and all the basic features you would expect from a auto 
completion plugin would be there. (See full list of editors here: 
https://github.com/Microsoft/language-server-protocol/wiki/Protocol-Implementations#editors-ides-supporting-the-protocol). serve-d adds some custom commands that give the user more control so they might be implemented for decent implementations too + serve-d depends on 2 custom notifications on the client side for automatic installation of dscanner & dcd.

Some new features in the serve-d branch include:

* automatic module naming: when you rename a file you are 
currently in or create a new file a module statement will be 
added/changed
* the English, German and Japanese translations are finally used! 
Thanks to Seiji Fujita for the Japanese translation
* dfmt is now included inside serve-d (also in the normal code-d 
if you update workspace-d)
* nice ddoc preview: the old preview was really chunky, this one 
now converts the ddoc to markdown and highlights embedded D code 
blocks correctly
* dedicated output log: you can now attach a very verbose output 
debug log to issues by opening the bottom panel, going to output 
and copying the code-d & serve-d output. This will hopefully make 
debugging issues much easier!
* live DScanner linting: you get errors from dscanner while you 
type now. Sometimes the issues are a bit off but after saving 
they get fixed.
* Argument parsing got an update: the current parameter highlight 
inside the DCD tooltips should be a bit better now
* goto definition should work better now and use less memory and 
be faster (well it's written in D now so that was to be expected)

So basically if you want to try out the latest bleeding edge 
version of my visual studio code plugin, uninstall the old code-d 
and get code-d-beta from the marketplace.

serve-d: https://github.com/Pure-D/serve-d
code-d: https://github.com/Pure-D/code-d/tree/serve-d
chat room to get quicker replies & support (please only bug 
WebFreak about code-d/serve-d issues): 
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