Heavy wizardry
Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface.
Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge.
Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit.
Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here".
Compare voodoo programming.
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