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		Hasnep 34 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Guix for Development It's not the Nix/Guile that's expensive, it's situations like: `let chromium = pkgs.chromium; in 1 + 1` In a maximally eager language you'd need to wait for the entirety of Chromium to build before you can find out what 1 + 1 is.

atiedebee 34 days ago [–]

I checked the spec and Scheme R5RS does have lazy evaluation in the form of promises using "delay" and "force", but I can see why explicitly having to put those everywhere isn't a good solution.

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