Make {.requiresInit.} to work for distinct types (#15869)

Make `requiresInit` pragma to work for distinct types in addition to
objects. Tagging of distinct types with `requiresInit` pragma was
already supported, but its impact wasn't applied. Now its behavior when
applied on distinct types is as follows.

Given the following distinct type definitions:

  ```nim
  type
    DistinctObject {.requiresInit, borrow: `.`.} = distinct MyObject
    DistinctString {.requiresInit.} = distinct string
  ```

The following code blocks will fail to compile:

  ```nim
  var foo: DistinctFoo
  foo.x = "test"
  doAssert foo.x == "test"
  ```

  ```nim
  var s: DistinctString
  s = "test"
  doAssert s == "test"
  ```

But these ones will compile successfully:

  ```nim
  let foo = DistinctFoo(Foo(x: "test"))
  doAssert foo.x == "test"
  ```

  ```nim
  let s = "test"
  doAssert s == "test"
  ```
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## Standard library additions and changes
- Make `{.requiresInit.}` pragma to work for `distinct` types.
- `prelude` now works with the JavaScript target.
- Added `ioutils` module containing `duplicate` and `duplicateTo` to duplicate `FileHandle` using C function `dup` and `dup2`.