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Where did you hear Facebook is dumping Mercurial. Last I heard they were using Rust to optimize Mercurial.
by themerone 4y ago
Where did you hear Facebook is dumping Mercurial. Last I heard they were using Rust to optimize Mercurial.
- sbuttgereit 4y agoMeta having moved on from Mercurial may be a factually true comment, but it looks like they still have fondness for Mercurial's ways: https://github.com/facebookexperimental/eden https://github.com/facebookexperimental/eden
- hinkley 4y agoI don't have any special knowledge of this, but it's possible at large companies for both to be going on. The people who don't like the tool move away, and the people who like it try to address some of the complaints to try to dissuade other people from jumping ship, and if they're very good at it, possibly convince others to come back.
- steveklabnik 4y agoAs someone who kept track of this from the outside, my understanding is that Mononoke, which was that "Mercurial server written in Rust," eventually diverged from Mercurial proper, and is now a new SCM called "eden". It's also no longer a DVCS.
- _old_dude_ 4y agoIt is still an incremental/lazy DVCS, the first checkout does not download the whole repository, but for most users it looks like a DVCS.
- steveklabnik 4y agoGotcha, I don't know about the details, I just know that their readme states very plainly that "Despite having originally evolved from Mercurial, EdenSCM is not a distributed source control system."