I have a new post up on the SIGPLAN blog: “Making PL Ideas Accessible: An Open-Source, Open-Access, Interactive Journal. Inspired by Distill, I propose an open-access, open-source, interactive journal for disseminating clear presentations of current ideas and methods in programming languages.

It’s a particularly good moment to consider our research’s reach and impact: CORE has just downgraded many PL conferences in its rankings. Just because you don’t take an interest in rankings doesn’t mean rankings won’t take an interest in you. Let this spur a new wave of beautiful and enlightening explanations of PL ideas that can reach a a broad audience.