by Roman Elizarov on May 19, 2022 | Tags: compilers, kotlin, language design, programming languages
Real programming languages are living things, changing and evolving. As with any production code, most of their designer’s time is spent on bug fixing and small improvements, rather than on the radical new features. One of the unique things about Kotlin is that it has been evolving in the use-case and community-driven fashion for years, starting way before it went to the stable 1.0 release in 2016, even for some time before it went public in 2011. Language design in the real world is a maintenance of a complex system and it runs into novel research questions with respect to type systems, feature interactions, usability, real-life code patterns in big code, etc.
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by Nada Amin on Aug 12, 2021 | Tags: language design, programming, reflection
We give an introduction to reflective towers of interpreters, a semantic model of reflection with a user level interpreted by a meta level interpreted by a meta meta level and so on.
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by Mira Mezini on Jun 28, 2021 | Tags: concurrency, distributed computing, formal reasoning, language design
When developing massively distributed, interactive applications, programmers must select mechanisms that balance consistency, performance, and availability, which can be challenging. New research is looking at ways to automate this selection, with provable guarantees.
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by Robert Rand and Michael Hicks on Feb 6, 2020 | Tags: compilers, formal verification, language design, program synthesis, quantum computing, type systems
As quantum computers become more practical, there is a rich opportunity to advance the development of tools to assist in the process of programming them, both now and in the future. To encourage more PL-minded researchers to work in this exciting new area, we established the Workshop on Programming Languages for Quantum Computing (PLanQC).
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by Sarita V. Adve, Ratislav Bodik, and Luis Ceze on Dec 19, 2019 | Tags: architecture, hardware specialization, language design, programming tools
We share the results of a DARPA ISAT study, I-USHER: Interfaces to Unlock the Specialized HardwarE Revolution, arguing for new hardware/software interfaces to enable the revolution promised by hardware specialization.
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