I have a subscription to Nature but most of the articles are totally beyond me. I’m thinking of switching to a comp-sci specific journal. I’m mainly interested in compiler design and implementation of JIT compilers and VMs like JVM and .NET.
for the specific domain that you’re interested-in, I suspect that a mixture of best-of-breed books & the actual live code of in-production projects, would be best?
While there used-to-be zillions of different magazines, that’s … kinda specific, and narrow, you know?
Props on the nature subscription, I had a subscription with physical copies that were fun to thumb through to really get a scope on my lack of understanding of everything in the world.
Why acedemic journals? Each article are all bleeding edge experimentation and theory that only the authors a handful of people really understand.
O’Reilly has a great subscription option and their books are very comprehensive and easy to read.
You might like to try conferences like PLDI (Programming Language Design & Implementation), OOPSLA (whatever that ridiculous acronym is for), and VEE (Virtual Execution Environments)
Edited to add: some overflow also happens into conferences like OSDI, ASPLOS, CGO, and other related OS/arch/compilers conference venues
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