True. However this mix of C and Perl works. I remember early days of git and whenever someone tried to bring Mercurial (or something else), the answer for any n

True. However this mix of C and Perl works. I remember early days of git and whenever someone tried to bring Mercurial (or something else), the answer for any non-trivial "how do I do X" in git was "here are some magic commands" and the answer from mercurial guys was "oh... you can't, the plugin for that doesn't exist yet". And that's how git won (well, it was also faster). And later came Github. Latest contender is https://pijul.org/ https://pijul.org/ , which claims easier conflict resolution, ability to work with part of repository and handling of binary files, but so far completely misses social aspect.