alt Hacker NewsThe problem with this is that it means you have to read guides which it seems no one wants to do. It drives me nuts.
But ya, I hate when people say they don't like "magic." It's not magic, it's programming.
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monkpit • yesterday at 10:44 PM
Magic refers to specific techniques used in programming, an people generally dislike these techniques once they have formed any opinion.
WJW • yesterday at 9:55 PM
Oh no! Reading!
Sorry for the snark but why is this such a problem?
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Most however are surely capable of understanding a simple metaphor, in which "magic" in the context of coding means "behavior occuring implicitly/as a black box".
Yes, it's not magic as in Merlin or Penn and Teller. But it is magic in the aforementioned sense, which is also what people complain about.