Starman is not a framework, it's an application-server / web-engine so it's apples and oranges; Starman is also the only engine that has ever given me bugs and even when it's running perfectly, uwsgi is superior in every way excepting simplicity of use/installation.

The video is clearly meant to amuse… It's fairly normal fare for Internet culture. And what dot? This is the fat comma =>. The ->s are chained methods, which is a fun and makes for good terse style; part of why jQuery is widely loved.