About the Conference

The MoreVMs’18 workshop aims to bring together industrial and academic programmers to discuss the design, implementation, and usage of modern languages and runtimes. This includes aspects such as reuse of language runtimes, modular implementation, language design and compilation strategies.

The workshop aims to enable a diverse discussion on how languages and runtimes are currently being utilized, and where they need to improve further. We welcome presentation proposals in the form of extended abstracts discussing experiences, work-in-progress, as well as future visions, from either an academic or industrial perspective.

Relevant topics include, but are definitely not limited to, the following:

• Extensible VM design (compiler- or interpreter-based VMs)
• Reusable components (e.g. interpreters, garbage collectors, …)
• Static and dynamic compilation techniques
• Techniques for targeting high-level languages such as JavaScript
• Interoperability between languages
• Tooling support (e.g. debugging, profiling, etc.)
• Programming language development environments
• Case studies of existing language implementation approaches
• Language implementation challenges and trade-offs
• Surveys and usage reports to understand usage in the wild
• Ideas for more predictable performance
• Ideas for how VMs could take advantage of new hardware features
• Ideas for how we should build languages in the future

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