Evolving Language Ecosystems (ELE)
A computer language is more than the code that programmers write or compilers translate into machine instructions. Modern languages are characterized by rich ecosystems that include compilers, interpreters, IDEs, libraries, help pages, manuals and disscusions forums.
To remain relevant, languages need to evolve, they must be augmented with new features, their libraries must be adapted to new end user requirements, implementations must change to meet new performance goals. How can this be achieved without disrupting the entire ecosystem?
The ELE project explores the fundamental techniques and algorithms for evolving entire language ecosystems. Our purpose is to reduce the cost of wide-ranging changes to programming languages and obviate the need for devising entirely new languages.
News
Flexible Alias Protection, a paper by James Noble, Jan Vitek, and John Potter receives the 2018 AITO Test of Time award at ECOOP.
Artem Pelenitsyn co-organizes the 2nd International Workshop on Machine Learning techniques for Programming Languages (co-located with ECOOP).
Julia Belyakova co-organizes the ECOOP and ISSTA Doctoral Symposium 2018.
Jan Vitek and Filip Křikava co-organize Curry On 2018.
Filip Křikava co-organizes the 11th Transformation Tool Contest (part of STAF 2018).
Deja-vu: A Map of Code Duplicates on GitHub is covered by news publications around the world, including: The Morning Paper, Slashdot, The Register, Developpez, OpenNet, Toutiao, and Sohu.
Filip Křikava co-organizes the 10th Transformation Tool Contest (part of STAF 2017).
Jan Vitek and Filip Křikava co-organized Curry On 2017.
Julia Belyakova and Artem Pelenitsyn co-organized the 1st Russian Conference on Programming Languages and Compilers.
Jan Vitek joins Bioconductor Advisory Board.
We organize the Programming Language Implementation Summer School 2017 in Bertinoro, Italy.
Tomáš Kalibera joins R core team.
Tomáš Kalibera joins R foundation.