The commonmark markdown spec allows for an info string after the opening code fence.
Many markdown engines enable syntax highlighting for supported languages (e.g. GitHub based on linguist) based on that info string.
So yeah, it's a markdown thing.
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The commonmark markdown spec allows for an info string after the opening code fence.
Many markdown engines enable syntax highlighting for supported languages (e.g. GitHub based on linguist) based on that info string.
So yeah, it's a markdown thing.