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Bazaar and Mercurial are dying... Bazaar is dead, and Mercurial is near death. Linus wrote the Linux kernel and it became the "de-facto standard" for web appl
by tzury 7y ago
Bazaar and Mercurial are dying...
Bazaar is dead, and Mercurial is near death.
Linus wrote the Linux kernel and it became the "de-facto standard" for web application stack servers (and phones, and watches, and Chroemcast and all sort of `Internet things`)
Linus wrote git and it became the "de-facto standard" for version control.
If a world had 23 more Linuses, we would have full control over our SaaS and "Clouds" and not locked-in as we are at the moment.
But we have only one like him.
- alexhutcheson 7y agoFacebook[1] and Google[2] have both publicly stated that they are using Mercurial internally, so "near death" seems like an exaggeration. Mercurial has some significant advantages over Git if you want to implement a scalable backend for really large repos. [1] https://engineering.fb.com/core-data/scaling-mercurial-at-facebook/ https://engineering.fb.com/core-data/scaling-mercurial-at-fa... [2] https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stores-billions-of-lines-of-code-in-a-single-repository/fulltext https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-stor...
- BjorksEgo 7y agoTheres been plenty of work done to make git enterprise scale in the last year https://vfsforgit.org/ https://vfsforgit.org/
- alexhutcheson 7y agoThat's a promising project, but it's currently Windows-only. My main point was that Mercurial is very much "not dead yet!"
- bytematic 7y agoIt's likely that there are many Linus's but they are not in positions (third-world, poverty, poor parenting, dictatorships) to achieve the same. That's why I think the biggest progress in tech/innovation will come with lifting as many people as possible out of those situations