I need some help finding my way around the various generics libraries. My usage scenario is -- at least to start with -- the ASTs of programming languages. It appears to me that there are two generations of generics -- earlier there was generic haskell and strafunski Now there is uniplate and kure (and syb? -- not sure of its generation...) I get this impression because I saw a comment somewhat along these lines. And also the very first reference link on the strafunski webpage: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Applications_and_libraries/Generic_progra... viz http://www.cs.vu.nl/Strafunski/ seems to be dead. So I am wondering whether strafunski is still under development or is it defunct? The following paras from http://www.cs.uu.nl/research/techreps/repo/CS-2008/2008-010.pdf The current status of generic programming in Haskell is comparable
to the lazy Tower of Babel preceding the birth of Haskell in the eighties [Hudak et al., 2007]. We have many single-site languages or libraries, each individually lacking critical mass in terms of language/library-design effort, implementations, and users.
Although generic programming has been used in several applications,
it has few users for real-life projects. This is understandable. Developing a large application takes a couple of years, and choosing a particular approach to generic programming for such a project involves a risk. Few approaches that have been developed over the last decade are still supported, and there is a high risk that the chosen approach will not be supported anymore, or that it will change in a backwards-incompatible way in a couple of years time.
sound omninous :-) In general my question is: What is alive/active and what is alive/active and what is -- um -- moved-on-from. And of course which are easier and which more difficult to dig into. Thanks Rusi