djs: the LDC 1.43.0 frontend ported to TypeScript (preview)

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On Saturday, 17 October 2026 at 17:34:35 UTC, Dave P. wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 October 2026 at 05:38:55 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi 
> wrote:
>> I've been porting the frontend of LDC 1.43.0 to TypeScript: 
>> [...]
>
> But now you have a frozen snapshot of the ldc frontend vendored 
> as of 1.43.0. If the dmd frontend updates you have to send your 
> clankers at it again.

This, to me this is a waste of tokens and a maintenance nightmare.

Improving dmd as a library is a better use of LLM tokens, then 
all you have to do for vscode support is to compile that to WASM.