Keynote: How To Be A Rockstar Developer
summary
A parody language becomes a real stack: a Bon Jovi–inspired grammar plus a community test suite, multiple implementations in JavaScript, then a full .NET/C# port compiled to WebAssembly so it runs client‑side in the browser. The project adds poetic numerals, pronoun semantics, string arithmetic and “ninja” literals, and sees real usage — 37,000 participants in a picoCTF round, puzzles at MIT and a complete Advent of Code run. The build uses a PEG generator Pegasus, a JS runner called Satriani, and ships as an ~8 MB wasm (2 MB gz) binary that executes without server cost.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Copenhagen Developers Festival
- 1:50Breaking the ice
- 3:56Myth of Rockstar programmer
- 8:46History of programming languages
- 19:00Inventing Rockstar in Sydney
- 25:39Why joke language worked
- 30:58Rockstar’s web interpreter
- 37:45Porting Rockstar to .NET
- 47:33Rockstar 2.0 features
- 51:03Live fizzbuzz in Rockstar
- 54:12Rockstar web beta
- 58:06Closing keynote
