I don't think most people really care that much about performance; rather a vocal minority. Most devs are not that discerning in choosing their tools: they'll h

I don't think most people really care that much about performance; rather a vocal minority. Most devs are not that discerning in choosing their tools: they'll happily use what's given to them or what's mainstream when they're learning and stick with it as long as they can. This is the quiet (massive) majority that mostly don't post on HN. I see a lot of people attributing Git's "win" to GitHub, and that's likely the biggest nail in the coffin, but the GH devs chose it because it was already reasonably popular and it was popular because of Linus Torvalds.