This is why I like python more than ruby. I feel like ruby has more magic and is harder to deobfuscate than python.

This eventually bubbles up to how rails does things.

Another note is CoffeeScript. I've looked at it but generally feel like it is too much magic with not enough reward. Yet I like jquery which is just the right amount of magic and lots of reward.

Completely agree with this. In fact, the Django community realized this years ago and created a "magic removal" branch that went on to become trunk because it was much easier to understand.

Then why aren't you busy moving blocks of binary information in and out of CPU registers?