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As one of the designers behind Neat, I like what Zurb have been doing with Foundation, but I'm not entirely fond of their semantic grid framework. Many decisions have left me scratching my head and wondering if there wasn't a better way to do things (innerRow() and mobile[...]() mixins are some of these).

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One of the things I like about Foundation is their nested column syntax. I don't have to worry about how many columns I have to work with.

In Neat I have to write something like: @include span-columns(4 of 8); If I'm in a div with @include span-columns(8);

In Foundation I always just allocate 12 (default) columns no matter where I am. Shown here: https://gist.github.com/3009035

This makes the css much more reusable.

Neat looks like a nice, lighter weight alternative to Foundation, but I can't switch for this reason.

Fair enough. Until we come up with a better way to detect nested columns, I don't think explicit nested rows is the route we want to take. Our primary goal is to use as few mixins as possible to achieve proper nesting.

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