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I'd argue they got it right: when 95% of projects use Git, then why learn anything else? I think the last time I used Mercurial was almost a decade ago at this
by ChickeNES 7y ago
I'd argue they got it right: when 95% of projects use Git, then why learn anything else? I think the last time I used Mercurial was almost a decade ago at this point, and I don't know of any major project that uses it (outside of Mozilla, who has most of their newer projects are on GitHub, and OpenJDK, which maintains a GitHub mirror).
After Googling, it's pretty dire actually: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ProjectsUsingMercurial https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/ProjectsUsingMercurial Many of these are dead links or links to repos that haven't been updated in years.
- BeetleB 7y ago>when 95% of projects use Git, then why learn anything else? I remember my University days: "I don't know anyone else who doesn't use Windows. Why do you use Linux?"
- ChickeNES 7y agoThat is ignoring my point with a deflection. This isn’t 1999 with Linux as a (relative) newcomer and on the upswing, the adoption rate has clearly dropped over time. I did miss the fact that Facebook uses Mercurial internally, but their public-facing repos are all on Github (including, ironically, their re-implementation of Mercurial, Mononoke). Open Source software doesn’t exist in a vacuum, it needs a community to support it and use it.