feat(ast_tools): allow defining foreign types with #[ast(foreign = ...)]

[overlookmotel]

Allow informing oxc_ast_tools about foreign types in AST (e.g. NonMaxU32) and other types which it otherwise can't parse (e.g. RegExpFlags, which is generated by bitflags! macro).

Mechanism is #[ast(foreign = ...)] attr on another type which acts as a "stand-in" for the real one, similar to serde's remote derive feature.

bitflags! {
    pub struct RegExpFlags: u8 { /* ... */ }
}

/// This dummy type tells `oxc_ast_tools` about `RegExpFlags`
#[ast(foreign = RegExpFlags)]
struct RegExpFlagsAlias(u8);

[overlookmotel]

• fix(ast): fix lifetimes on custom Serialize impls #8899
• refactor(span): combine Span type and impls in 1 file #8900
• refactor(ast): estree via on struct fields implement From #8898
• refactor(ast): override TS type defs with #[estree(custom_ts_def)] attribute on type #8897
• refactor(ast_tools): improve correctness and performance of idents #8895
• refactor(ast_tools): rename is_visited to has_visitor #8893
• refactor(ast_tools): reorder code in Visit generator #8892
• refactor(ast): generate Visit methods in order of type definitions #8891
• refactor(ast)!: name AstBuilder enum builders after variant name not type name #8890
• refactor(ast): record plural names in #[plural] attr #8889
• refactor(ast_tools): shorten code #8888
• feat(ast_tools): get extra params for visitor methods from #[visit(args)] attr #8887
• refactor(ast): shorten generated code for GetSpan #8883
• feat(ast): improve TS type definitions for appended fields #8882
• refactor(ast_tools): parse attributes more deeply #8881
• refactor(ast): derive ContentEq on literal types #8880
• refactor(ast): use = syntax for #[scope] attrs #8878
• refactor(ast): move #[estree(skip)] to types #8877
• refactor(ast): move #[clone_in(default)] to types #8876
• refactor(ast): #[content_eq(skip)] attr #8875
• feat(ast_tools): allow attrs on types which do not derive the trait #8874
• refactor(ast): rename #[estree(always_flatten)] attr to #[estree(flatten)] #8871
• feat(ast_tools): generate mapping of trait name to crate in oxc_ast_macros #8870
• refactor(span)!: export ContentEq trait from root of oxc_span crate #8869
• refactor(ast): communicate type of RegExpFlags to oxc_ast_tools with alias type #8868
• refactor(syntax): add #[ast] attr to semantic ID types #8867
• feat(ast_tools): allow defining foreign types with #[ast(foreign = ...)] #8866 👈 (View in Graphite)
• feat(ast_tools): Support NonZero* primitives #8865
• refactor(ast): shorten generated code for numbers #8864
• refactor(ast): re-order generated code #8863
• refactor(ast): remove unneeded lint attrs from generated code #8862
• main

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