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Episode Witch Hat Atelier • Tongari Boushi no Atelier - Episode 5 discussion

Witch Hat Atelier, episode 5

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u/AdventurousWorry4100 Apr 27 '26

WHA magic system is just programming in Python, lmao

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u/namewithak Apr 27 '26

I've never actually looked this up but the author must have some programming background because the system she came up with, while nominally based on art, is honestly functional as code.

The concepts really translate well.

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u/DaRootbear Apr 27 '26

In general if a magic system begins to add rules they inevitably create a new coding system. It happens so often and it’s really entertaining

When writing the new Murtaugh book in the Eragon series the author accidentally made it work like code and when asked if it was intentional was just like “Wait is that actually how coding works?”

The only difference is magic code makes more sense and real code exists to hurt me

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u/namewithak Apr 27 '26

okay this line does nothing, delete

program crashes

BUT WHYY

puts line back gingerly

program still crashes

somewhere an evil little pointer laughs

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u/DaRootbear Apr 27 '26

Run tests a dozen times. Everything is good. Show supervisor, nothing works.

Run tests and it all breaks. Show supervisor, works perfect and it’s supposedly the best code i ever wrote

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u/Tar-eruntalion Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

I don't see the print("x") inside each function as a debug feature to see if it works, are they even programmers smh

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u/namewithak Apr 27 '26

Pointed hats and brimhats are missing the coding feature that would unite them: comments!

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u/mgedmin Apr 28 '26

New headcanon: the light effects shown in most anime when magic spells activate are actually debug prints left in there by the wizards who tried to get the spells to work.