Less than a week until ‹Programming› 2026 in Munich (March 16–20)!
What’s ahead:
- 4 days of deep-dive sessions.
- Workshops including MoreVMs, PX/26, SCLIT, VIMPL, and Substrates.
- Networking in the heart of Bavaria.
We can’t wait to see you there!
Final details: 2026.programming-conference.org
If you fix your writing, you don't need to fix all possible tools...
No to unnecessary abbreviations!
Yes to clear and unambiguous writing!
If I notice it in my own writing I will try to make an effort to avoid the need for the indirect construct.
Yeah... I ran out of characters and edited it down, but yes, author names have their issues, too, but, in the context I was thinking of it's still better than having to remember abbreviations. At least for me.
And indeed, it's not like there is an easy solution that fits all cases,but if I...
Project name, name of the technique, author name, or similar, and then a citation as true parenthetical (i.e. it can be omitted without changing meaning).
It's something I think of as "indirect writing". There is something one could say instead to avoid putting the burden on the reader.
Even if that would be the case, that doesn't scale (to all tools). And if I want to read on paper, to avoid getting sucked into shit posting on the internet, it also has no chance of working.
I hate having to consult a decoding table when reading dense text.
That's as true for abbreviated author names or numbers as it is for "Greek" letters instead of names I may have a chance to remember.
It's also true for general abbreviations. A few can be ok. Too many and I'll probably get lost.
Oh wow, someone is scraping researchr and sends "we'll organize your travel" spam. Ugh.
The deadline of the ICOOOLPS workshop is soon!
Want to talk about language implementation challenges, experiences, and/or research?
It will be in sunny Brussels end of June!
2026.ecoop.org/home/ICOOOLP...
The deadline of the ICOOOLPS workshop is soon!
Want to talk about language implementation challenges, experiences, and/or research?
It will be in sunny Brussels end of June!
2026.ecoop.org/home/ICOOOLP...
A bit late and not yet finalized, but our program for MoreVMs'26 is online.
Early registration deadline is in a few hours, but will remain open afterwards still.
Join us in Munich for a day of talks around language implementation!
2026.programming-conference.org/home/MoreVMs...
A bit late and not yet finalized, but our program for MoreVMs'26 is online.
Early registration deadline is in a few hours, but will remain open afterwards still.
Join us in Munich for a day of talks around language implementation!
2026.programming-conference.org/home/MoreVMs...
Final 24h! Early bird for #prog26 ends tomorrow, Feb 20. Don't miss the art & science of programming in Munich (Mar 16–20)!
Register: 2026.programming-conference.org
Submit to the Substrates workshop: 2026.programming-conference.org/home/substra...
ISMM (International Symposium on Memory Management) is going to hosted at PLDI'26. Please consider submitting your awesome papers on memory management by 27th March:
conf.researchr.org/home/ismm-20...
Overheard some non-technical people:
"Oh, that's all AI, I wouldn't touch that."
It was about some finance scam app...
Programming Language Implementation: In Theory, We Understand. In Practice, We Wish We Would.
In about a month, on March 9th, I'll give my inaugural lecture.
I'll probably complain about the complexity of modern programming language implementations...
stefan-marr.de/2026/02/prog...
We are organizing the third edition of the "Fuzzing and Software Security Summer School 2026", at NUS on 26th–29th May 2026. We have a stellar set of speakers and will also have a Hackathon. Please share, and/or consider joining! fuzzingsummerschool.github.io/index.html
Programming Language Implementation: In Theory, We Understand. In Practice, We Wish We Would.
In about a month, on March 9th, I'll give my inaugural lecture.
I'll probably complain about the complexity of modern programming language implementations...
stefan-marr.de/2026/02/prog...
Just passed by this fun mural www.cologne-tourism.com/arts-culture...
Python, Is It Being Killed by Incremental Improvements?
In October, I gave a talk at SPLASH, which is now online.
Is the title click bait? Click the link below, watch the recording, and find out!
Spoiler: I think Python has a problem but we can do something about it.
stefan-marr.de/2026/01/pyth...
Python, Is It Being Killed by Incremental Improvements?
In October, I gave a talk at SPLASH, which is now online.
Is the title click bait? Click the link below, watch the recording, and find out!
Spoiler: I think Python has a problem but we can do something about it.
stefan-marr.de/2026/01/pyth...
After working on ZGC for a decade, I’m happy to announce that I’m publishing a book about ZGC in JDK 25. It ships 22 May (www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...) and is being published by Taylor & Francis. You should get a copy if you want to learn more about ZGC. It’s available for pre-order now.
Very cool research made it into TruffleRuby!
.@julien-lange.bsky.social and I are looking for a PostDoc to work on our EPSRC Project "INDIMO: Invariant Discovery and Monitoring for Message-Passing Programs".
If you know someone, or are interested, please reach out!
A few details here: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
.@julien-lange.bsky.social and I are looking for a PostDoc to work on our EPSRC Project "INDIMO: Invariant Discovery and Monitoring for Message-Passing Programs".
If you know someone, or are interested, please reach out!
A few details here: jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
I should probably add that this isn't a judgement, just an observation.
I watched it. Not really what I imagined an inaugural lecture to be.
Koichi gave a talk at VMIL about it: youtu.be/pqDMne677Ww?...
The code is at github.com/ko1/astro
naruby uses the Prism C API for parsing: github.com/ko1/astro/tr...
Last year I had the pleasure to review and contribute to this paper by @ko1s.bsky.social: atdot.net/~ko1/activit...
It's a tiny framework to partial evaluate AST interpreters written in C. The paper uses the example of a minimal subset of Ruby called naruby (Not A Ruby).
