# RockstarLang/rockstar

Home of the Rockstar programming language

Repository: https://github.com/RockstarLang/rockstar
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/rockstar
Homepage: https://codewithrockstar.com/
Language: JavaScript
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2026-06-23T23:58:46+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 89, release rhythm 40, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2965, "days_push": 71, "days_rel": 435, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 24}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6883, forks 228 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:51.111249+00:00)

## What it is
Rockstar is an esoteric programming language whose syntax is inspired by 1980s hard rock and heavy metal lyrics, together with its official implementation. The repo contains the Starship interpreter (C#/.NET, also compiled to WASM for the web), a CodeMirror editor plugin, and the documentation website.

## Use cases
- write programs that read like 80s rock lyrics
- run rockstar programs from the command line
- try an esoteric programming language in the browser
- learn programming basics with a fun joke language
- embed a rockstar interpreter in a web page via wasm

## When to choose
- you want a fun, joke-driven esoteric language with real docs and working interpreters
- you need a cross-platform interpreter with native binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows
- you want to run the language in-browser via WebAssembly

## When to avoid
- you need a production language for real software projects
- you want a large ecosystem of libraries, tooling, and community packages
- you need high performance or serious numerical computing

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: interpreter, parser, programming-language, cli, compiler
- domain: programming-languages, parsers, developer-tools, education
- platform: cross-platform, windows, wasm, dotnet, browser, cli
- tags: esoteric-language, esolang, rockstar, interpreter, wasm, codemirror, jekyll, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- RockstarLang/rockstar (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:51.111249+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:41:39.923244+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/RockstarLang/rockstar (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:51.111249+00:00, sha d4c9c50fd1a0)
  - homepage: https://codewithrockstar.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:37:48.628157+00:00, sha 3882b963af3e)
  - site_page: https://codewithrockstar.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:37:48.675414+00:00, sha 213250d31782)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.