A result of the discussion above is now finally available!
A new text display module, TTY, is now live. Docs are here. It accepts Tipsy text messages (and also can log normal float values from a cable).
BASICally now has the ability to output Tipsy text messages. This allows, among other things, one to log messages from a BASICally program. But there’s an interesting variety of uses.
You can see two minute walkthrough video of example uses for TTY here. This patch of TTY sample uses is here.
I’m hopeful that more modules will start to support the input and output of Tipsy text messages, as I think text is a potentially powerful tool for manipulating a patch and getting human-readable feedback from a patch or module.
Thanks again to @baconpaul and @pachde for encouraging and materially contributing to this idea.