| 17:33 | <bradleymeck> | Domenic: whats the reason behind exclusive streams? I only care because I often want to tee streams |
| 17:40 | <TabAtkins> | bradleymeck: It's so, when you're piping from an impl-provided source to an impl-provided sink, we can shortcut JS and do all the actual piping in the browser's own code, without worrying about some other code popping in and wanting to look at the stream as well. |
| 18:16 | <zewt_> | i wonder how many "download.htm" files i've save-as'd over the years |
| 18:35 | <Domenic> | bradleymeck: what TabAtkins said. Also it's useful for building abstractions like https://github.com/whatwg/streams/blob/exclusive-reader/Locking%20Design%20Doc.md#level-1-using-readers-directly |