Ability to remove print messages from the console

Feature Requests Engine Features
#1

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to create progress bars in the console.

There is currently no way to remove messages from the console, making things like this impossible:

I’d love an API to be able to remove messages from the console (with antiflicker/a replace method), for example

local LS = game:GetService("LogService")
			
local TotalToDo = 500
local Message = LS:PrintOut(`Updating... (0/{TotalToDo}, 0% complete)`)

for i = 1, TotalToDo do
	Message.Content = `Updating... ({i}/{TotalToDo}, {i/TotalToDo}% complete)`
	task.wait(.01)
end
			
task.delay(5, function()
	Message:Destroy()
end)
			
Message.Content = "Done!"

Additionally, built in functions for progress bars, spinners, etc would be nice (or even colored text :eyes:)

If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience by allowing me to create progress bars in the console.

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#2

This would really make the console feel more useful. You could make a printed message show certain values, such as the value of a variable for debugging.

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