We should consider a writable stream endpoint for the console

[domenic]

E.g. it'd be nice to be able to do .pipeTo(console.writable) or maybe .pipeTo(console.createWritable("log")) or something.

We should prototype this in JavaScript and publish an npm package and stuff and see if it gets usage. But I wanted to log the idea while it came to me, and start the discussion if people are interested.

/cc @ricea.

[ricea]

I prefer the second form, since I don't think it makes sense to have the console locked to a particular source.

I'm interested in whether we could give a hint to the console on what the chunks mean. Maybe something as simple as "text" or "binary" initially

[domenic]

I was figuring we'd leave the display to the usual console.log logic. E.g. if you log a Uint8Array it looks one way, if you log a string it looks another way.

[terinjokes]

Would this API have access to other parts of Console (eg, grouping, timing)?

[domenic]

That seems hard to envision... I think it's mostly for when you have an incoming string stream, and so unless we had some way of coding those into strings (terminal escape codes!?) then probably no grouping or timing...