There's a conference. It's called SCAM (Source Code Analysis & Manipulation, I'm sure the acronym is a total coincidence). I'm the PC co-chair, working with Carolin Brandt.
Submit your papers! Deadline is June 11th. Conference is in Benevento, Italy, in September.
https://conf.researchr.org/home/scam-2026#Research-Track-Call-for-Papers
SCAM has historically been gotten more attention from the broader Software Engineering research community rather than the Programming Languages community, but we would love to see more PL papers as well.
I was looking at the citation counts for SCAM 2016 papers. They are more than respectable! The top 5 papers have more than 50 citations each.
SCAM 2026
The aim of the IEEE International Conference on Source Code Analysis & Manipulation (SCAM) is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on theory, techniques and applications that concern analysis and/or manipulation of the source code of computer systems. While much attention in the wider software engineering community is properly directed towards other aspects of systems development and evolution, such as specification, design, and requirements engineering, it is the source code that contains the only precise description of the behavior of the system. The analysis and m ...
