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The benefit of generic iterators or implementing iterators lazily? The benefit of generic iterators is that they make SOLID programs easy to write, especially when converting data. It makes any kind of data ingest or hand rolled parsing/semantic analysis easy to write, read, and hard to screw up - which is 90% of business logic.

Lazy evaluation is the only reasonable way to implement iterators so you don't have to pay the costs of intermediate data structures or sending data over channels. Insertion into a data structure isn't free. Function composition is.