Yield generators are a well-known programming feature available in most used programming environments such as JavaScript, Python and many others. They allow easy and compact extensibility on streams operations such as on iterators or enumerable types. Yet, two questions arise about their use: 1) are generators the most efficient choice to extend sequences with new user-defined operations? 2) What if the development programming languages does not provide the yield feature, such as in Java? The research work that I describe in this dissertation aims to answer these two questions. To that end, I analyzed two different programming languages designs for a sequence type, Java and Javascript. Also, I studied the state-of-the-art alternatives to the out-of-the-box sequences included in each language, in a set of features, devising benchmarks to analyze their performance with real world usecases, available for developers to use when choosing a sequence type according to their needs. Not only that but, I also propose my own solution of a sequence type, based on a minimalist design that both allows for verboseless extension as well as fluent chaining of new operations. My proposal aims to be as simple and transparent as possible so the developer may clearly understand what he is using. Finally, I answer the question "When should you use parallelism?" with a set of benchmarks that compare Java Streams sequential processing with its parallel counterpart.