Future of Mercurial?

[David Demelier]

Le 10/03/2019 à 13:31, Harley Leyton a écrit :
> -- 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.

Yes and no, to use Git perfectly on Windows you still have to use the 
bash terminal for better usage. Performances are still lesser on Windows 
than unix systems.

> 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.

It's not because everybody use Git that everyone else should have to do. 
There are still popular projects using Mercurial or even 
subversion/cvs/fossil. Git benefits from GitHub being unfortunately 
de-facto opensource hub. Not Mercurial's fault.

Just have a look at the huge contributions everyday. I'm following 
several other opensource projects and I can tell you that they don't 
have as far as contributions even though they are used.

Mercurial won't disappear, there are users even in companies (such as 
Facebook and Google).

Ubuntu is probably one the most used Linux distribution this does not 
mean Slackware is dead ;)

Regards

--
David