I'm a huge Hg fan, and this thread makes me miss it terribly, but being written in "a readable language" is pretty much negated by all of the shenanigans Mercur

I'm a huge Hg fan, and this thread makes me miss it terribly, but being written in "a readable language" is pretty much negated by all of the shenanigans Mercurial has to pull (including a nontrivial amount of C and Rust) in order to be passably performant.