I found an interesting article written by John Resig himself who posted an article in 2008 sharing the same concerns about Javascript abstractions: http://ejohn

I found an interesting article written by John Resig himself who posted an article in 2008 sharing the same concerns about Javascript abstractions: http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-language-abstractions/ http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-language-abstractions/ His shares similar concerns that I do in the first few paragraphs of his article. To quote: In the case of these language abstractions you are gaining none of the benefit of learning the JavaScript language. When a leak in the abstraction occurs (and it will occur - just as it's bound to occur in any abstraction) what resources do you have, as a developer, to correct the problem? If you've learned nothing about JavaScript then you stand no chance in trying to repair, or work around, the issue.