You can emit anything but it just so happens that 99% of the streams used in node core are Buffers for performance reasons (Buffers are allocated outside of V8'

You can emit anything but it just so happens that 99% of the streams used in node core are Buffers for performance reasons (Buffers are allocated outside of V8's heap). An example of emitting objects is in here https://github.com/maxogden/dominode/blob/master/example.html https://github.com/maxogden/dominode/blob/master/example.htm...