The real question being: will the pain of using it go away?

On Tuesday, 19 March 2013 10:12:38 UTC+1, Floby wrote:
>
> I have a question regarding the new streams to which I could not find any 
> answer.
>
> *Is it okay to use streams as before (aka "old mode") ?*
>
> On Monday, 18 March 2013 19:06:48 UTC+1, Sigurgeir Jonsson wrote:
>>
>> The new streams have excellent support for high/low watermarks and 
>> auto-pausing/resuming, but the documentation confuses me a little... 
>> particularly the read method.
>>
>> When I read the new docs for the first time I was under the impression 
>> that the optimal way to become a user of a stream is to write loops around 
>> the read functio.  However in practice I find myself simply writing custom 
>> writeStreams and use the callback to control upstream pressure (in addition 
>> to source Watermarks if needed).   Here is an example where I move the 
>> output to a queue that executes a custom function in parallel (i.e. 
>> uploading to a database)    https://gist.github.com/ZJONSSON/5189249
>>
>> Are there any benefits to using the read method directly on a stream vs. 
>> piping to a custom Writable stream?  
>>
>

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