Comment by happens

That sounds like a good strategy! I've dabbled in writing task runner, and relaying logs with preserved colors and formatting without messing up the terminal and interleaving messages from different tasks is a huge hurdle.

I wish there was a standard for telling processes "keep the colored and formatted output, but assume it will be read line by line"... It's possible to just let processes write into pty's and then parse the output, but then you pretty much have to implement an entire nested terminal emulator :-(