Introducing SIGPLAN-M
SIGPLAN-M is a new international long-term mentoring program for aspiring and current PL researchers. Get a sense of what it’s about through the stories of one of our fantastic mentors.
What’s the Role of Developer Experience in Programming Languages Research?
Programming languages papers often talk about usability advantages, but the evaluation sections of these papers tend to focus on performance or semantic guarantees. What if we applied methods from user-centric research to choosing problems and evaluating solutions in PL?
Increasing the Impact of PL Research
PL research is as consequential as ever; how can we make it more impactful? I suggest three ways: (1) expand the tent and lower the barriers to entering it; (2) venture outside the tent, taking PL knowledge and ideas to other communities, to address their problems; and (3) join or organize collaborative efforts attacking substantial problems, such as deployable AI or a quantum programming stack, the solution to which involves PL techniques, but many others besides.
HOPL: Not an ordinary conference
The History of Programming Languages (HOPL) conference is the most paradoxical that SIGPLAN puts on: the hardest to publish in, yet an acceptance rate of almost 100%. This post is the story of HOPL IV (2020).
Conferences in the Age of COVID-19
Online conferences are the new normal. Here’s how to make them shine.
Mechanized Proofs for PL: Past, Present, and Future
The history of machine-checked proofs about programming languages offers valuable lessons for the future of programming languages research.
