This is an important point to consider in frameworks. Does $abstraction make things easier because you don't have to learn about $technology, or does it make t

This is an important point to consider in frameworks. Does $abstraction make things easier because you don't have to learn about $technology, or does it make things easier because it eliminates the repetitive parts of $technology? Keep in mind, the former reason is entirely fine/admirable -- so long as the abstraction is not unnecessarily leaky. Why learn something you don't have to? I hav skepticism over Cappuccino because, as someone who does a lot of web and Obj-C/Cocoa development, I see a lot of my Mac dev friends attracted to it not for its merits as a solution for making web apps, but because they don't want to learn anything about web technology. Still, I have a lot higher opinion of Cappucino than ASP.NET :)