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by jonahx 3357 days ago
The market votes for bloatware because people are lazy.

If you are someone who cares about speed and simplicity and generally doing things right, I don't see how this fact relevant to the current discussion. Sure, frameworks like mini won't be as popular as bootstrap. But there are plenty of people, myself included, who'd rather use them.

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Mini is 7kb; Bootstrap 20kb

Your users simply won't notice the difference. If you for whatever reason need to include a picture on your page it's going to be bigger than the ultra lightweight bootstrap page.