Format

We have an ongoing list of presenters, which is just a GDoc. Each week, a presenter is assigned in round-robin order from that list. Anyone can join, but one doesn't have to join and no one joins automatically.

The presenter chooses the week's topic. It can be a tutorial, demo, survey, or a discussion on any topic related to Compilers/PL, which can be based on an artible, blog post, video etc. If you want ideas, take a look at the Ongoing List of Topics. If you have ideas, add them there!

There is no preparation required by the attendees.

Time & Place

Every Friday, 12:00 - 1:00pm,
Room 3102, Siebel

Mailing List

compiler-meetup@lists.cs.illinois.edu


Schedule Spring 2024

(in reverse chronological order)

Date Title Presenter Extra Material
04/26 Continuing the Coq Tutorial Stefanos Baziotis -
04/19 An Introduction to Coq Stefanos Baziotis -
04/05 Reflections on C++ Reflection Daveed Vandevoorde Slides, Video
03/22 Hercules - A WIP from-scratch heterogeneous compiler Russel Arbore, Aaron Councilman -
03/07 How Should Future Programming Languages be Designed? Andy Luo -
03/01 Compilers for Approximate Query Processing Stefanos Baziotis -
02/23 The Only Unbreakable Law Russel Arbore -
02/16 Linear Haskell Aaron Councilman -
02/09 Pony programming language Ryan Ziegler -
02/02 Sea-of-Nodes IR Russel Arbore Slides
01/26 Spring plans and trivia - Trivia Questions & Answers



Schedule 2023

(in reverse chronological order)

Date Title Presenter Slides
12/01 Partial Evaluation, Thorin and AnyDSL Russel Arbore Slides
11/17 Special Meetup: Trivia - -
11/10 Attribute Grammars and Extensible Languages Aaron Councilman -
11/03 Linking and the Mold linker Vimarsh Sathia -
10/27 The Mojo programming language Vir Narula -
10/20 History and compilers for web languages Ryan Ziegler -
10/13 An overview and history of compiler IRs Stefanos Baziotis Slides
10/06 The monetary cost of compiler development and an assorted history of compilers Russel Arbore Slides
09/29 Empirical studies on PL design - Quorum Aaron Councilman -
09/22 A quick-n-dirty demo of egg Ben Darnell -
09/15 PHP - And from now on, you will see it in your nightmares Stefanos Baziotis Slides
09/08 New Systems Languages (Zig, Jai etc.) Russel Arbore Slides
09/01 Tree Automata Aaron Councilman -
08/25 Having "fun" with COBOL Ben Darnell -
08/18 Logica - A Logic Programming Language for Data Analysis Stefanos Baziotis -
Before this point, the format of the meetup was different. The fourth type of sessions, which is now a "Free Topic", was a "Discussion". We picked a topic/article/paper, we studied it beforehand, and we prepare questions which we discuss in the meetup. For these sessions, look for the GDoc in the supplemental material column of the schedule.
Date Title Presenter Type Supp. Mat.
08/11 No meeting - - -
08/04 Forth: The programming language that writes itself - Discussion Add your questions in Zulip!
07/28 WebAssembly - Discussion GDoc
07/21 PL and HCI: Better Together - Discussion GDoc
07/14 Collapsing Towers of Interpreters - Discussion GDoc
05/26 An Introduction to Monads: Part 2 Stefanos Baziotis Tutorial GDoc with a short agenda and expected background. It includes extra reading material if we finish early.
05/19 An Introduction to Monads: Part 1 Stefanos Baziotis Tutorial GDoc with an agenda and repo with code and explanations.
05/12 Codon: A Compiler for High-Performance Pythonic Applications and DSLs - Discussion GDoc with reading material. Add your questions there!
05/05 Cogent Programming Language - Discussion GDoc with reading material. Add your questions there!
04/27 Beyond Functional Programming: The Verse Programming Language (Simon Peyton Jones) - Discussion GDoc with reading material. Add your questions there!
04/21 Solutions/Alternatives to Undefined Behavior - Discussion GDoc with background suggestions and a list of questions/points to discuss.
04/14 A Demo of Dias + a tutorial on dynamic rewriting Stefanos Baziotis Demo -