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Too much magic

A common criticisms of frameworks like Textual is that they have “too much magic”.

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Now “too much magic” is not the same thing as “bad magic”, although they are often conflated. Bad magic is when the implementation details leak out from the level below. This can manifest itself as cryptic errors that reference the magic’s implementation.