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

"The Manga Guide" [0].

Japanese Python book and other related manga programming books [1].

[0] https://nostarch.com/manga-guide-13-book-set

[1] https://www.amazon.co.jp/12%E6%AD%B3%E3%81%8B%E3%82%89%E3%81...

Are these any good? Say, if I want to refresh my knowledge of calculus...

I have a few of the Manga Guide books and I haven't found them so great for the way I learn. The Manga Guide books are in a kind of "Plato's dialogue" style which I find off-putting but, for people who like ideas presented that way, it might be fun.

Whilst programming isn’t the main topic, Miss Kobayashi is a Python programmer

https://www.crunchyroll.com/news/latest/2017/2/12/see-what-m...

Battle programmer Shirase

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

The replies in that thread are on point. I'd add retro late 90s / early 2000s nostalgia aesthetic for gen-Z.

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

1000 years. Essentially 'static

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.