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> My main gripe with lazy evaluation is that it's implicit behavior. It's to evaluation what garbage collection is to memory

Are you saying you would like to return to the languages with explicit memory management? Or why is, generally speaking, GC considered good and LE considered bad?

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> Are you saying you would like to return to the languages with explicit memory management?

Not really, but that does seem to be the logical conclusion at the end of the day. Haskell makes a really good case for the use of a garbage collector via pure functional programming, but I'm open to more fine-grain programmer-driven mechanisms for handling memory. I need to try out Rust's borrowing system on a meaningfully large project before I can start saying anything conclusive.

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