oopsla-topic-selection
Use when judging whether a project is OOPSLA-shaped — a PL contribution whose evidence spans design, implementation, formalism, or empirical study — and routing within the SIGPLAN family from OOPSLA's seat: POPL for theory-first, PLDI for implementation-performance, ICFP for functional, Onward! for vision, ECOOP, or SE venues.
Profile →npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill oopsla-topic-selection --agent claude-code
Same command for any agent — swap --agent for codex, cursor, copilot.
Weekly change comes from our own snapshots, not the repository page — it measures attention, not adoption.
# OOPSLA Topic Selection OOPSLA is the broadest seat at the SIGPLAN table: its published scope covers programming languages "from design to implementation and from mathematical formalisms to empirical studies," and its verified exemplars include a benchmark suite, a measurement-methodology critique, a corpus/survey study, a soundness counterexample, a language experience report, and a formalized runtime mechanism (`resources/exemplars/library.md`). The routing question is therefore rarely "is this PL?" but "is OOPSLA's *breadth* the asset, or would a narrower sibling reward this paper's center of mass more?" ## The center-of-mass test State the one sentence a reviewer would repeat to the committee. Route on what that sentence *is about*: | The sentence is about... | First-choice venue | OOPSLA case exists when... | | --- | --- | --- | | A metatheoretic result, calculus, logic | POPL | The formalism explains a deployed mechanism or design choice | | Compiler/runtime performance engineering | PLDI | The insight is the design trade-off, not the speedup | | Typed/functional language technique | ICFP | The audience is OO/imperative/multi-paradigm practice | | A provocative vision withou
- The center-of-mass test
- Signals the project is genuinely OOPSLA-shaped
- Signals to route away
- Two-round consequence for routing
- Decision procedure
- Output format
What does the oopsla-topic-selection skill do?
Use when judging whether a project is OOPSLA-shaped — a PL contribution whose evidence spans design, implementation, formalism, or empirical study — and routing within the SIGPLAN family from OOPSLA's seat: POPL for theory-first, PLDI for implementation-performance, ICFP for functional, Onward! for vision, ECOOP, or SE venues.
How do I install it?
Run `npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill oopsla-topic-selection --agent claude-code` — it drops the skill into your project so the agent can pick it up. Swap the --agent value for codex, cursor or copilot if you use one of those.
Where does this skill come from?
From brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills, a repository with 909 stars. We read it straight from the repository tree rather than a submitted listing, so what you see here is what is actually published.
Is a popular skill a good skill?
Not necessarily. Stars measure attention, not adoption — a repository can trend for a week and be abandoned. That is why we show the weekly change from our own snapshots next to the total, instead of a single flattering number.