I just encountered the following problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11695373/lazy-decoding-of-a-list-with-dat... If I get that correctly, there once was a discussion about adding a Data.Binary.Lazy to binary: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2007-November/034758.html What happened to this? And if binary is strict by default now, shouldn't the binary-strict package be deprecated? Is there an alternative these days how to lazily write/read binary? Thanks Niklas