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I think they mainly chose it because it's what the community wanted. Git is very popular with Rubyists, and Pythonistas like to be a bit different than Rubyist
by oomkiller 16y ago
I think they mainly chose it because it's what the community wanted. Git is very popular with Rubyists, and Pythonistas like to be a bit different than Rubyists. Instead, they chose hg, which is essentially git, with different names for things. Hg is a perfect fit for Python, as thats about how different Python is from Ruby or vice-versa ;)
- josephcooney 16y agoOr could it just be that mercurial is written in python?
- oomkiller 16y agoWell I did read the article, so I know that was part of it, I just think how the community feels mattered the most.
- VBprogrammer 16y agoI don't use Mercurial, but didn't they replace the last of the Python code quite recently?
- lenni 16y agoYou are misinformed. Mercurial is still very much written in Python with a small part in C.
- gilaniali 16y agoThey do mention: "We are pragmatic enough to not choose a tool simply because it is written in Python, but we do see the usefulness in promoting tools that do use it when it is reasonable to do so as it is in this case."
- jacobolus 16y agoGit was created for Linux kernel development. How in the world does Ruby have anything to do with anything?
- JustinSeriously 16y agoI think the logic is this: Github is popular. Ruby is the most popular language on Github. Therefore Ruby and Git are connected.
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