Because I have poor self control, I made a thing to avoid looking at those increasingly terrible ACM Digital Library pages. Introducing Analog Library: https://al.radbox.org

Phew, survived the first grant submission and now onto prepping my first lecture! People weren't joking when they said you can't no-life as a prof. because you'll still have commitments tomorrow 😆

People keep asking me what the "Rust for hardware design" would look like. Those who know their PL history know that, before we could build Rust, we had to define ideas like "Memory Safety".

Hardware design should be SAFER! Memory-safe software languages changed the world and allowed to us to build massively larger systems. At their heart, memory-safe languages eliminate a category of bugs that pointer-manipulating programs suffer from.

Folks showing up to ASPLOS: would there be interest in having a "junior faculty social"? I used to organize in-person socials for PhD students at PLDI (pltea.github.io) and think it would be fun to have an excuse to meet the cohort of junior faculty!

The SRC is awesome! Especially good for new junior faculty as a way to meet a wide set of soon-to-be-PhD applicants and learn about all the cool research they've been doing!

PLDI@sigplan-pldi.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Are you interested in programming languages research and mentoring up and coming PL researchers? Then you should fill out the self-nomination form for the PLDI'26 Student Research Competition's PC: forms.gle/KSacbLEtw1Yw... (Note, you must have a PhD by June 2026 to be a judge)

Curious about some programming languages history: when/where did the idea of "Memory Safety" come from? Is there a good source that traces its development and formalization?

Continuing my long-running beef with "transpiler", I wrote a post trying to formalize different definitions of the word and why they don't work (for me): people.csail.mit.edu/rachit/post/... (Not so secret goal: Get more people to read "On the Expressive Power of Programming Languages")

Q: Is it OK to get the references for my paper from generative AI? A: Only if you verify they are real & relevant. Submitting a paper with hallucinated references would violate the ACM Policy on Authorship, and your paper will likely be desk rejected.

Congratulations @clairexen.bsky.social: #HotChips / IEEE TCMM 2025 Open Source Hardware Contribution Award

@sigplan-pldi.bsky.social was an absolute blast this year and had a lot of interesting conversations and papers! I've written down a little retrospective reflecting on some of them: people.csail.mit.edu/rachit/post/...

At PLDI this year, I received the SIGPLAN John C. Reynolds Distinguished Dissertation award and at ISCA, I received an honorable mention for the SIGARCH / TCCA Outstanding dissertation award! Truly honored to receive recognition from both the communities! Really excited for what comes next!

somehow in $CURRENT_YEAR, I still can't get OCaml's LSP to jump to the correct definition for me after hours of debugging....

PLMW@PLDI'25 is now accepting applications: pldi25.sigplan.org/home/PLMW-pl... Deadline: April 10, 2025 PLMW an excellent place to learn about exciting PL research, from the ground up, and to find your PL friends! Please apply!

PLMW @ PLDI 2025 - Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop - PLDI 2025

The Programming Language Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) aims to broaden the exposure of late-stage undergraduate students and early-stage graduate students to research and career opportunities in programmi...

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implicit public modules baaaaad

SPAA'25 is seeking submissions! Uniquely this year, SPAA seeks a broader set of research areas, including algorithms, systems, PL, applications, quantum, and more. The central theme is parallelism and concurrency. Deadline: Feb 28 Please consider submitting! spaa.acm.org/call-for-pap...

Well-deserved! Iris is also a really great example of how well-engineered artifacts make it dramatically easier to pursue technically deep research.

Derek Dreyer@herrdreyer.bsky.social · 2y ago

Very proud to announce that the first Iris paper received the 2025 Most Influential POPL Paper Award this week. This is a testament to the amazing contributions of a wonderful international network of collaborators. www.youtube.com/live/ZKwpY0g...

What are people's favorite "core systems" textbooks (OS, Networking, Databases, etc.)?

using emacs (spacemacs) and enjoying it...i have been corrupted

Switching to OCaml really makes me appreciate how much effort Rust folks put into good error messages

What role should Student Research Competitions play in mentoring new researchers? @notypes.bsky.social and @avh.bsky.social argue for a renewed focus on feedback and visibility for SRCs. blog.sigplan.org/2025/01/13/t...

The Missing Mentoring Pillar

The Missing Mentoring Pillar The programming languages (PL) community has developed a whole host of mentoring pillars to help new research become a part of our community The Programming Languages M…

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Mentoring is incredibly important to students and young researchers. @notypes.bsky.social and @avh.bsky.social talk about the "missing mentoring pillar" in our latest PL Perspectives blog post blog.sigplan.org/2025/01/13/t...

The Missing Mentoring Pillar

The Missing Mentoring Pillar The programming languages (PL) community has developed a whole host of mentoring pillars to help new research become a part of our community The Programming Languages M…

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Been thinking about these ideas for a couple of years! Finally time to put them into action and make the SRC an awesome place for junior researchers to get high-quality feedback on ongoing work!

SIGPLAN@sigplan.bsky.social · 2y ago

What role should Student Research Competitions play in mentoring new researchers? @notypes.bsky.social and @avh.bsky.social argue for a renewed focus on feedback and visibility for SRCs. blog.sigplan.org/2025/01/13/t...

The paper on Data Race Freedom a la Mode was just awarded a Distinguished Paper award at POPL25! An excellent excuse to read all about a potential future for safe parallel programming in OCaml. richarde.dev/papers/2025/...

wait does ocaml NOT have global DCE?

☕️ We’re running LATTE again: our ASPLOS workshop about languages/compilers/tools/whatever for hardware design. Submissions are just little 2-pagers, due on January 31. Plenty of time to throw something together! capra.cs.cornell.edu/latte25/

Also a classic example of something architects thought would be good (resolving branches take time so lets do something useful in the middle) but didn't really work because compilers and programmers couldn't use it well!

Shriram Krishnamurthi@shriram.bsky.social · 2y ago

For you young 'uns: This was a classic RISC move. Your first run version of the compiler you'd just stick a NOP there, then try to get clever once you got everything working. And you'd forget (esp if dealing with more than one ISA)…hence the ***ALWAYS*** in the pix. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_s...

Okay, I am in NYC for a bit. Where do the cool people (PL / Systems / Architecture) hang out?? I promise food and hot takes.

If you're working in the general area of languages and/or accelerators, you should absolutely submit a paper! I'm biased of course, but LATTE always has a ton of great people and interesting discussion so I hope to see everyone there :) Submissions close on Jan 31 The workshop is on March 30

Rachit Nigam@notypes.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're running our early workshop on building new languages, tools, and techniques for accelerator design (capra.cs.cornell.edu/latte25/) co-located with ASPLOS! It's an awesome crowd of PL, Compilers, and HW design folks all of whom are passionated about making accelerator design better!

there is an art in writing a one-page long letter of recommendation for a student and still making it compelling. concise, to the point, and hard to ignore.