Mercurial popularity is stagnant

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On 08/19/2014 04:09 PM, till plewe wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 9:26 PM, cowwoc <cowwoc at bbs.darktech.org> wrote:
>> Yet another stake in Mercurial's heart:
>> http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2013/12/19/dvcs-and-git-2013/
>>
>
> Why this excitement? Numbers are not everything: I have yet to meet a
> Ferrari driver who feels threatened by the popularity of Toyotas.

If someday Mercurial does fade to irrelevance, I bet you'll be quoted as 
a clear example of why that happened.

The main problem with your reasoning is that Mercurial is not a Ferrari. 
  You may believe it is, but it is not.  It's just another Toyota-clone 
competing in a Toyota market.  When a client goes looking for a Toyota, 
it picks the one which overall offers the best value, has more support 
and the market offers more services.  Therefore it tends to pick 
something else.  Time and again.

And with time, this tendency only gets worse.


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> I really don't understand what the problem is. What is there to worry about?

There's nothing to worry about.  The world just keeps on turning, 
whether people use Mercurial or something else.


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