>Still, you need to be able to fall back and know when to fall back to more basic behavior. If the user’s stdout isn’t connected to a tty (usually this means their piping to a file), then don’t display colors on stdout. (likewise with stderr)

GCC does this, leading to no colour output where it would be useful if you're building with Google's Ninja-build. Maybe there are some people who do pipe GCC output to a file - I've never had to. If you do this with your app, I'd appreciate being able to re-enable the colour.