Port code block functions from the VS Code codebase about runme HOT 6 CLOSED

I think we can close this issue for now. Metadata are handled, lang detection is described in #77, and basic lang normalization was merged in #81.

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Language detection is tracked in #77.

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@sourishkrout what do you want to do in Language names normalization (TBD cc @sebastian).?

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Do you mean where bash becomes sh but also bat becomes sh? Trying to figure out what language names normalization is?

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@sourishkrout that was it. Thanks!

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The existing implementation is very Unix/Linux/macOS centric where it just assumes shell is inevitable which is why bat will be turned into sh. I think we want to account for a future where we want to support e.g. PowerShell on Windows. However, the guesslang model is basically platform agnostic so the best we can do is look at the execution context (platform identifier passed down) to make assumptions.

Making sure it's possible to pass down the execution context's platform (darwin, win, linux, etc) but only handle non-Win is probably all we need for now.

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