Check out this conference talk from December 2019 – "The Art of Code" – which culminates in a live performance of Fizzbuzz in Rockstar<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSlcxxYAA8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSlcxxYAA8</a>
This is how Advent of Code day 7 solution looks like in Rockstar [1]:<p><pre><code> My plaything is your mind
Cast my plaything into the void
Listen to my heart
Shatter my heart with the void
Natsuki is frightened
Yuri is gentleness
Poems are invaluable
Rock reality
While my heart isn't mysterious
Roll my heart into the world
Burn the world into my hope
If my hope is less than Natsuki
Let Natsuki be my hope
If my hope is greater than Yuri
Let Yuri be my hope
Let Sayori be reality at my hope
If Sayori is mysterious
Sayori is hereabouts
Build Sayori up
Let reality at my hope be Sayori
Build poems up
My end is justifying
My thoughts are knowledgable
Let the volume be poems over my thoughts
My hope is accessible
Turn down the volume
Build Yuri up
While my hope is less than Yuri
Let my target be reality at my hope
If my target is not mysterious
Let the volume be the volume without my target
If my end is nothing
If the volume is less than my end
Let my end be my hope
Build my hope up
My hope is accessible
My passion is literature
My heart is courageous
Knock my heart down
While my hope is less than Yuri
Let my poem be reality at my hope
If my poem is not mysterious
Let my fear be my end without my hope
If my fear is as weak as my heart
Let my fear be my fear of my heart
Let my fear be my fear of my poem
Let my passion be my passion with my fear
Build my hope up
Shout my passion
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[1] <a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/rar7ty/2021_day_7_solutions/hnkbroh" rel="nofollow">https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/rar7ty/2021_d...</a>
Is there a Rockstar => Airline Food transpiler?<p><a href="https://esolangs.org/wiki/Airline_Food" rel="nofollow">https://esolangs.org/wiki/Airline_Food</a><p>>Airline Food is an esoteric programming language created by User:Largejamie in April 2021 whose programs are supposed to look like Jerry Seinfeld's stand-up.<p>Factorial: Takes an input from the user and outputs its factorial<p><pre><code> You ever notice this?
What's the deal with airline food?
What's the deal with it? Right?
So...
Um,
Just like it.
Yeah, Not like this.
Moving on...
Um, See?</code></pre>
Nice to see people rediscovering this language from time to time. I wrote an interpreter for an early version several years ago, just for fun. Possibly my favourite esoteric language. I particularly love the philosophy of "if you write even a single line of Rockstar, then you can consider yourself a full-fledged Rockstar programmer" (I'm paraphrasing, but I remember something like that in some official documentation).
I was excited initially, but Hair Metal is an obvious no-go for me.<p>Although it could be fun to do "reverse Perl poetry", and find Hard Rock / Hair Metal songs whose lyrics are valid Rockstar code. That way, we could finally find out what that one special song really <i>means</i>.<p><pre><code> \m/ (> <) \m/</code></pre>
And then there's the "Enterprise" programming language:<p><a href="https://github.com/joaomilho/Enterprise" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/joaomilho/Enterprise</a><p>So that you can rockstar at night, Enterprise by day until someone offers you the blue/red pill.
Website is blocked in India because CloudFlare has a terrible ISP in India: <a href="https://github.com/RockstarLang/codewithrockstar.com/issues/11" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/RockstarLang/codewithrockstar.com/issues/...</a><p>I wrote a thread on why this keeps happening and why CloudFlare needs to fix it: <a href="https://twitter.com/captn3m0/status/1468454402956533761" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/captn3m0/status/1468454402956533761</a>
The author of Rockstar gave a _fantastic_ presentation called The Art of Code, where he eventually introduces the language. I cannot praise the talk enough. It is available on YouTube.
Awe inspiring.<p>I recorded a song where the lyrics were a parsable brainfuck program after wondering if a) daftpunk's higher bigger faster was turing complete, and b) whether the same was true of never gonna give you up. For me it was substituting high concept for talent, but what else are you going to do in pandemic lockdown.<p>Rockstar tho, this is next level.
> The keywords it, he, she, him, her, they, them, ze, hir, zie, zir, xe, xem, ve, and ver refer to the last named variable determined by parsing order.<p>that was funny. let's have more social constructs in programming languages!
Why is this blocked in India?<p>"The website has been blocked as per order of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under IT Act, 2000."
While it is probably not a very good idea to use this to code, it reminds me of something DHH once said about Ruby.<p>I don’t have the quote, but he said that he just loves the language because it is so fun to write for him, despite it not being the optimal language. And this alone makes him get into flow much more easily and therefore be more productive.<p>This alone has made me gain interest in learning Ruby. It might be slower than lots of languages out there, but backend computing power is often not the main bottleneck in your stack. Developer velocity is probably much more important when it comes to producing great software and moving fast.
How long before Take-Two Interactive sues for trademark?<p><a href="https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pnam=Take-Two%20Interactive%20Software,%20Inc.%20%20" rel="nofollow">https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pnam=Take-Two%20Interact...</a>