On Tuesday, 27 June 2017 at 14:32:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
- Yes, not everyone likes colors. You can turn all colors off
with a command-line switch.
- Yes, everyone agrees that having all colors be configurable
would be good. We still need defaults that are going to look OK
on most terminals.
- Yes, no matter what colors we choose, they're going to look
bad on some terminal somewhere. Let's worry about the major
platforms' most common terminals for now.
All of these points give added weight to this feature being opt
in, not opt out. Why would we want to make output worse? Also, we
shouldn't syntax highlight the message, just colour the whole
line.
