Rockstar with Dylan Beattie
Have you heard of Rockstar? Carl and Richard talk to Dylan Beattie about a joke that may have gone too far - or perhaps not far enough? Dylan talks about the origins of Rockstar, the idea that recruiters like to use the term rockstar to identify a certain class of developer that is far from realistic. But what if rockstar was a language? Then anyone who programmed in it would be a rockstar developer... right? What started as a gag specification is now a language - the code looks like 80s rock lyrics, but it compiles!
Guests:
Dylan Beattie
Dylan Beattie wrote his first web page in 1992 and never looked back. He's been building data-driven web applications since the late 1990s, and has worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He's the CTO at Skills Matter in London, he's a Microsoft MVP, and he's a regular speaker at conferences and user groups, where he's spoken about topics from continuous delivery and Conway's Law to the history of the web, federated authentication and hypermedia APIs. When he's not wrangling code, Dylan plays guitar and writes songs about code. He's online at www.dylanbeattie.net and on Twitter as @dylanbeattie.
Links:
- Svelte https://svelte.dev/
- Rockstar https://codewithrockstar.com/
- LOL Code http://www.lolcode.org/
- Rockstar on GitHub https://github.com/RockstarLang/rockstar
- The Post JavaScript Apocalypse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPB34lDZj3E
- Rockstar Plugin for VSCode https://github.com/ra100/vscode-rockstar-language