Dear haskellers, Generic programming has been around for more than 10 years now. We think a lot of progress has been made in the last decade. As an example, there are more than 10 proposals for libraries or language extensions only for Haskell. The success of generic programming has also caused a problem: although generic programming has been applied in several applications, it lacks actual users for real-life projects (HaRe using Strafunski is maybe an exception). This is understandable: choosing a particular approach to generic programming for a real-life project is rather risky: 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 at least it will change in a backwards incompatible way in a couple of years time. We have recently started an initiative to design a common library for generic programming, which should work together with most of the Haskell compilers, and for which we hope to guarantee support for a longer period. If you want to get involved (or just want to see the discussion), you can subscribe to the mailing list generics@haskell.org, see http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/generics -- Johan Jeuring and Andres Loeh