[Lukas_Skywalker]

I always thought it was funny that people criticize the "magic" of certain frameworks, when at its core, almost all programming is magic (since it is almost always an abstraction). And there is probably no clear distinction on where non-magic ends and magic starts.

But somehow, no one complains about having a GC instead of needing to use `malloc`/`free` or `fetch` doing the DNS query automatically.

And that's exactly _why_ I use frameworks and libraries. So I don't have to write low level code, or as one could call it, to use some magic.

[AstroBen]

Magic isn't just abstractions. Ruby magic tends towards meta-programming and making as much behavior implicit as possible (a lot of this is cultural). Things that tend to make it fun to write but hell to debug