Beginning to sound like someone who’ll be into Haskell in a few years.

haha, don't get me started on that silly memory copy insanity of the pure function it's at the centre of the debate between GC, malloc and insane shit like Rust borrow checker but i think that, as Go and Java both use GCs and both are within spitting distance of C/C++ performance that the problems of GC only exist in people's imaginations and for purposes like operating system kernels and embedded systems with no memory