What Is the Meaning Behind Anime Girls Holding Programming Books

There's a lot of overlap between the anime fan "weeb" group and the hobby programmer group.

And it's funny because, there are almost no anime about programming.

Like the pictures of the feminine person ordering a ticket for Oppenheimer and the tough scary person ordering a ticket for Barbie

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33008751

it means it took Frieren 1000 years to fully understand Rust's borrow checker.

It means “Have you read your SICP today?”

"Здравствуйте, это канал об аниме?" (is this the anime channel?)

"Да." (yes)

"Как мне пропатчить KDE2 под FreeBSD?" (how does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD?)

...asked Alexander Kosyrin on the #anime channel of RusNet in 2004.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-does-one-patch-kde2-under...

It's a longstanding association. Overly-online people have overly-online-people hobbies. If you like anime you probably like programming, and vice-versa.

Wait until someone tells you about the programming socks: https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-are-programm...

looks like a form of waifu page.