Generators in Lone Lisp

Lone Lisp just dropped generators—think “pause and play” for functions—and the community went full reality‑TV about it. The dev’s rallying cry, “Begone, memcpy. Begone,” set the tone: this is about speed and sanity in loops, not wizard‑level power tricks. Some readers applauded the move as the first sensible foundation for iteration: finally, a way to produce values one‑by‑one without copying giant stacks every time.

But the purists came armed with taxonomy. One commenter waved a Stack Overflow explainer classifying continuations into “asymmetric vs symmetric” and “stackful vs stackless,” arguing the new “semi‑coroutines” are a tidy, narrower tool. Others called it a nerfed version of coroutines and accused Lone of reinventing the wheel—then politely sanding off half the spokes. The vibe: simplicity vs. purity, performance vs. theory.

Meanwhile, jokes flew faster than a for‑loop. Folks memed the “restraining bolts” line (yes, like sci‑fi droids) and compared generators to Netflix for loops: you hit “next episode” and the function resumes exactly where it left off. A few snarked that infinite lists will now binge‑watch themselves. Love it or side‑eye it, the crowd agrees on one thing: fewer stack copies in hot loops is a win. The only question is whether this “less power, more speed” play becomes Lone’s new personality.