About TOPLAS

ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) is the premier journal for reporting recent research advances in the areas of programming languages and systems to assist the task of programming. It is published on a quarterly basis.

TOPLAS now supports the journal-first publication model. TOPLAS papers can be submitted for presentation at partner conferences, including POPL, PLDI, OOPSLA, and ECOOP. Every effort will be made to make a decision by the conference notification date. Work that has been previously presented at one or more conferences will not be considered for presentation, and papers must be submitted at least three months before the official conference submission deadline.

Papers can be either theoretical or experimental in style, but in either case, they must contain innovative and novel content that advances the state of the art of programming languages and systems. We also invite strictly experimental papers that compare existing approaches, as well as tutorial and survey papers.

The scope of TOPLAS includes, but is not limited to, the following subjects:

    language design for sequential and parallel programming
    programming language implementation
    programming language semantics
    compilers and interpreters
    runtime systems for program execution
    storage allocation and garbage collection
    languages and methods for writing program specifications
    languages and methods for secure and reliable programs
    testing and verification of programs

For further information and to submit your manuscript, see https://dl.acm.org/journal/toplas/author-guidelines.