[malthejorgensen]

This.

IMO he's still a "rockstar". It's just the Node and JS community that hypes everything disproportionally (they used to at least). The fact that he single-handedly built Apex (https://github.com/apex/apex) show that he's still prolific, and a programmer of note.

There's a similar story for Sindre Sorhus, who moved on from the JS community to Swift.