Future of Mercurial?

[Harley Leyton]

-- The following is written in good faith for frank, honest discussion --

I began using hg many years ago, back when git had a horrible UI and didn't work on Windows. Since then, git has become fully supported on Windows and the UI has much improved. hg still has the edge for user-friendliness and cross-platform support, but git has almost 100% of the mindshare and market.

I've been stubbornly sticking with hg for hobby projects, but I almost never encounter anything other than git in the open source and commercial worlds. (I'm aware that hg is used in both, but this is a rare exception.) hg seems to be going very much in the direction of bzr, although we're clearly not there yet.

I'm interested in more positive - but realistic - perspectives.