I'm curious as to why you feel it's unfortunate to add so many layers of abstrac...

		amadiver on Nov 5, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mockingbird, Cappuccino, and what really matters I'm curious as to why you feel it's unfortunate to add so many layers of abstraction over the system. Besides the "All abstractions are leaky abstractions" argument, is there any other reason you feel like this is a bad thing? Or is it ruffling your engineering feathers?

Primarily because it's an inefficient abstraction.

Yeah, Moore's Law and all that. But still.