Langdev 2026

Topics & Goals

LangDev is celebrated on an yearly basis around Europe. It brings together the community working & researching around Language Engineering, MDE, DSLs with a clear focus on showing progress on the state of the art with working tooling. Talks with running software demonstrations are encouraged over just theoretical papers.

Model Driven Engineering is gaining traction as one of the Key competences to be developed to foster progress (as recognized by the European Union in different programs).

Special Edition

Malaga's edition is colocated with MODELS 2026 (the biggest international conference for Modeling). This bring a great opportunity for Industry and Academia to meet together in a great networking experience.

Location

Hotel: Melia Costa del Sol

Paseo de Maritimo Torremolinos, 11
29620 Torremolinos, Málaga
Spain
Map

Registration takes place directly on site. Please have your ticket and passport or European identification card at hand.

For any other inquiry please write directly to langdev2026@metadev.pro.

Important Dates

To be defined...: Call for Presentations opens
To be defined...: Submission Deadline
To be defined...: Early Bird registration
To be defined...: Acceptance Notification
To be defined...: Late Bird registration
To be defined...: Registration Deadline
2026-10-[8..9]: LangDev’26

Call for Presentations

Dates to be defined...

We solicit talk proposals concerning the application, development, and innovation of language engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Industrial case studies: experience reports, large-scale evaluations, best practices, and human factors to adoption.
Novel meta languages for language construction and composition
Holistic approaches to language engineering that cross-cut multiple language aspects (e.g., abstract and concrete syntax, semantics, transformations) and/or integrate with program analysis, validation, testing, or other advanced techniques.
New language workbenches or novel extensions of existing language workbenches.
Backend infrastructure of (web-based) language workbenches explaining solutions to collaboration, synchronization, or communication.
Low-Code / No-Code approaches using appropriate languages
- Languages for describing and deriving digital twins
- Languages for non-engineering issues, such as science, legal, social, or environmental sustainability issues
- DSLs engineered on the basis of GPLs and GPMLs (general-purpose languages)
Engineering new interaction models for languages (block-based, notebooks, live programming, etc.
Tools for debugging DSL implementation, and creating DSL debuggers.
Applications of AI to Language Workbenches and/or language engineering.

LangDev seeks presentations that demonstrate applied aspects of language engineering. Presentations explaining the theory behind language engineering are also welcome, but they need to showcase the practical applicability of the presented approaches. Presentations about preliminary or unfinished work are welcome.

We encourage presenters to demonstrate their work with a demo or live coding over “just” showing slides. Additionally, we encourage speakers to accompany their presentations with a public repository (whenever is possible) with the code that helps the participants to (easily) run the presented tools, experiment with them, or tweak benchmark experiments. This helps to create a lasting contribution.

Submission

Dates for submission will be anounced. A proposal includes a title and a short (maximum 200 words) abstract. As LangDev is an international meeting, the proposals and talks should be in English. In case the talk is accompanied by a demo, we encourage presenters to also provide a brief demo outline as part of the proposal. Presenters will have 30 minutes for their talks (25 min talk + 5 min Q&A). Presenters may choose to follow a traditional presentation style where the Q&A is at the end of the talk, or they may follow a chess timer-based style. Notifications about acceptance will be sent out by September 1.

Program Committee

To be anounced

All proposals will undergo reviewing by the program committee.

Organization

In case you have any further questions, please contact: langdev2026@metadev.pro

Organizers:

Javier Troya - Málaga University
Lucia Enriquez - Metadev S.L.
Pedro J. Molina - Metadev S.L.

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