Mercurial didn’t have the evangelical base that GitHub gave git. Mercurial was hard to see in the real world. Mercurial was not taken up by the young programmer

Mercurial didn’t have the evangelical base that GitHub gave git. Mercurial was hard to see in the real world. Mercurial was not taken up by the young programmers. Soon enough fewer young programmers meant more expensive development time because older more experienced programmers would be maintaining the code. But I think the biggest reason mercurial did not do well was because the viral network was not there. If hg wants to still be relevant, it should copy all of git’s commands and features and then supplement it with native features.