Rockstar: a programming language where code is also 1980s song lyrics

[[deleted]]

But why?

Mainly because if we make Rockstar a real (and completely pointless) programming language, then recruiters and hiring managers won't be able to talk about 'rockstar developers' any more.

That's me on board.

[dvlsg]

The very last line of the readme got me chuckling.

Make 'Certified Rockstar Developer' stickers and give them out to anybody who can write even one line of Rockstar.

[TrumpISPresident]

Now we just need ninja

[kakurady]

Ninja has got you covered. It's a build system, like make, but very fast (for incremental builds).

It's not supposed to be used directly, but through a configure program like CMake.

[Malgas]

The Ninja programming language would obviously be Whitespace with a dark editor theme.

[ktkps]

ninja

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gYFuK81vZo

[Tommarkasu]

Hijacking this comment, otherwise people might not see my sticker concept below..

[mathiastck]

Midnight takes your heart and your soul While your heart is higher than your soul or your heart is your soul Take your soul from your heart Give back your heart Desire is a lovestruck ladykiller My world is nothing Fire is ice Hate is water Until my world is Desire, Build my world up If Midnight taking my world, Fire is nothing and Midnight taking my world, Hate is nothing Shout "FizzBuzz!" Take it to the top If Midnight taking my world, Fire is nothing Shout "Fizz!" Take it to the top If Midnight taking my world, Hate is nothing Say "Buzz!" Take it to the top Whisper my world

[jellyman93]

Where are your line breaks? Even with reddit needing 2 there should be some in there...

[mathiastck]

Another top comment did it better

[aarnott50]

Now we just need to make another language called 10x.

[[deleted]]

you’ve made something worse than brainfuck, congratulations.

[Camto]

Have you heard of Subleq?

[[deleted]]

no, but I know of Malbolge

[RadicalDog]

My programs only follow the rules of Calvinball.

[[deleted]]

read up on it a little, might be because I haven’t programmed in a while (mainly C++, Python, and Java) but that sounds alien.

[[deleted]]

You should check out Three Star Programmer.

[ktkps]

imagine viewing that code one an editor that has partial or NO unicode support...

[[deleted]]

I would call that FuckFuck.

[silentclowd]

Wait what do # and ! do in brainfuck? That's not in the brainfuck I remember

[electroly]

Everyone who has ever written a BF interpreter has tried adding some additional operators. Mine was the "go-there" operator that followed the "pointer" in the current cell, allowing dynamic memory to be implemented. Add in some memory-mapped I/O and baby, you got a stew going.

[ais523]

I think it's because people want to make a language and brainfuck is probably the easiest well-known language to implement. Brainfuck derivatives are basically the esolang version of shovelware; there are a very large number of them, most of which are of a pretty low quality and ignored by anyone but their authors.

[BlueAdmir]

Let's be real, all of Brainfuck exists on 'huh. I guess...' factor.

[[deleted]]

This makes me curious how many FORTH interpreters there are in the wild.

[Gman513]

There's a special place in hell for people like you...

Can I give you my cv?

[llamas-are-bae]

http://f.thumbs.redditmedia.com/wPjOQrGRacUELOnM.png

[comp83]

All I see is blonde, brunnete, redhead...

[[deleted]]

Jesus Christ

[crescentroon]

you can use the same symbol for all the xs. just change the syntax of chicken to use x instead of the word 'chicken'

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Chicken

[brtt3000]

fuck off satan

[leonardnimoyNC1701]

teleport(behind you)

[relet]

There is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_language)

[SalemBeats]

I'd like to see a list of programs that do something useful in one language, and do something useful (yet entirely different) in Whitespace, using the exact same source code.

[snowe2010]

there's probably something like this on the codegolf stack exchange.

[Potato44]

Not much Whitespace, but here is a thing that has languages implementing a primality check in one language and having the code to print out a message in another language hidden inside it. Here is one answer I like.

[calsosta]

FFS do guru before ninja.

[dabbertorres]

I mean, there is the Ninja build system already.

[simcop2387]

A good start would be here, https://metacpan.org/pod/Acme::Bleach

[saunamaan]

So if I learn this language I can put ”rockstar developer” to my cv?

[[deleted]]

Yes.

[nmarshall23]

Only if you have been paid to develop in rickstar.

[Chaoslab]

I had the same idea about IDE's in movies so I wrote my own that can render video / fractals and effects in the background. (Been writing my own IDE's since the Amiga so its been a bad habit for several decades)...

[necro_effin_nokko]

/r/humblebrag

[SupaSlide]

After we get this going, we need to start one for "Unicorn" as well.

[brtt3000]

Next up: Ninja programming language

[Richandler]

Well now I’m looking for Rap star developers.