SIGPLAN’s treasurer, Alex Potanin, details where the money goes for running conferences and the SIG’s other community activities. 💸 blog.sigplan.org/2026/07/20/s...

How the SIGPLAN Budget Works

SIGPLAN runs on a simple arithmetic: around $2M USD a year in conference registration income from POPL, PLDI, ICFP, and SPLASH/OOPSLA must cover the conferences themselves, some $300K in annual com…

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The OOPSLA 2025 RC chairs, @shriram.bsky.social and Sukyoung Ryu, required some submitting authors to agree to review. Their new blog post describes the policy and its outcomes this year. blog.sigplan.org/2025/09/09/t...

Are you ready for PLDI next week? The best part about it is seeing old friends 👯 and making new ones! But how will your friends know you are going? Let them know by making a post using the #pldi25 tag or mentioning us @sigplan-pldi.bsky.social 🌟

We’ve started a podcast! @awsto.bsky.social and @samps.phd host “Current Continuation,” a little interview series with PL researchers. The first two episodes are with @ranjitjhala.bsky.social and @satnam6502.bsky.social. sigplan.org/cc/

As part of SIGPLAN blog, @samps.phd (Cornell) and I started an interview series where we talk to luminaries in the field of Programming Languages. Our first one is a super fun conversation with Ranjit Jhala (UCSD). 1h26m of goodness. www.youtube.com/watch?v=goUZ...

E1: Ranjit Jhala (UCSD)

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Defunding the NSF will have disastrous downstream effects on the tech industry. It’s time for people in industry to ACT. In this cross-post from the SIGARCH blog, Prof. Vijay Janapa Reddi outlines some steps you can take now. blog.sigplan.org/2025/05/19/t...

The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia

This post was cross-published from the SIGARCH blog. The Research Pipeline is Stalling The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) froze all outgoing funding, including new awards and scheduled…

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Tell an aspiring PL researcher in your life to apply to PLMW @ PLDI 2025! The application deadline is tomorrow. pldi25.sigplan.org/home/PLMW-pl...

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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What makes a good conference talk? Per Michael Greenberg, the answer lies in the lyrics to “How Many Mics” by the Fugees. blog.sigplan.org/2025/03/31/h...

How to Give a Good Talk

In computer science, conferences are a focal point of academic attention. Conferences are a moment where computing communities—distributed over the globe—come together. Giving a talk at a conferenc…

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From a group of researchers at Microsoft: a survey of the testing challenges that arise when software adds LLM-powered features. blog.sigplan.org/2025/03/20/t...

Testing AI Software Isn’t Like Testing Plain Old Software

AI software demands new approaches to testing that go far beyond existing software testing methodologies. And with the rapid evolution of AI model capabilities, the need for the software engineerin…

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After a long hiatus, SIGPLAN Research Highlights are back! The highlights committee[*] is thrilled to announce four exceptional PL papers from 2021-2023 awarded in this round! ⇒ [*] Azalea Raad, Stephen Kell, Mike Bond and Erez Petrank, @natefoster.bsky.social, @lorisdanto.bsky.social, and me.

Generics, recursive types, and structural subtyping are all features that many modern languages want, but their combination can quickly get unwieldy. A POPL Distinguished Paper from last year distilled a decidable type system that combines all three. blog.sigplan.org/2025/01/29/p...

Parametric Subtyping for Structural Parametric Polymorphism

Recursive types, generics (sometimes called parametric polymorphism), and subtyping are all essential features for modern programming languages across numerous paradigms. However, structural subtyp…

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Are we still doing “Bluesky has the juice”? @sigplan-pldi.bsky.social is here—follow for all your design and/or implementation needs.

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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Before PLDI 2021, in-person PC meetings were the norm. The steering committee decided to reconsider, 4 years hence, whether to revive them. That bill has come due. We have survey results. blog.sigplan.org/2025/01/02/s...

“Should PLDI return to in-person Program Committee meetings?” – Survey results

[Note: Since PLDI joined the PACM-PL journal, what was previously called Program Committee is now called Review Committee. In the following, we use the term Program Committee (PC) because it is a b…

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I just found out that @sigplan.bsky.social collects open-access links to SIGPLAN proceedings all together in one place: sigplan.org/OpenTOC/. Probably worth bookmarking!

PL researchers often want to claim that something is “usable,” “intuitive,” “easy to reason about,” etc. But how should we examine these claims without full-blown user studies? @tonofcrates.bsky.social has advice. blog.sigplan.org/2024/11/21/e...

Evaluating Human Factors Beyond Lines of Code

Software systems researchers want to make human-centered claims, but don’t have the proper tools to do so. That’s how we ended up with the ubiquitous lines-of-code comparison found in e…

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