Re: [streams] Transform streams and acknowledgement of writes (#329)

This is a great analysis @tyoshino. Thank you so much for digging in to it.

The breakdown of default/borrowing/providing and default/byob/lending is really insightful. I am concerned about the ergonomics for authors, regarding choosing between all of these. But maybe we can hide that so that pipeTo and pipeThrough make the smart decisions automatically? Authors end up using getReader() and getWriter() almost all of the time, except sometimes they use getByobReader() when they want read(n)-type functionality.

It feels a like we might be over-engineering... But it's also important to do acknowledgement and piping right... hmm. Hopefully we can do this in layers: ReadableStream -> ReadableStream with BYOB reader (to allow read(n) functionality if nothing else) -> full flexibility.

> getBufferLendingReader()

This works for more than just buffers though, right?

---

Still lots to think on here. But I am hopeful we are on the right track...

---
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:
https://github.com/whatwg/streams/issues/329#issuecomment-107729252