> That definitely includes mercurial etc.
People tried mercurial. They went back to git.
People tried mercurial. They went back to git.
I recently started a new job where the vanilla git CLI is the only git frontend installed on company servers, and the regressions in user-experience are painful :(
Not some. I mean, even the few source code repository services that supported mercurial started dropping it.
See Bitbucket's announcement:
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/bitbucket/sunsetting-mercuria...
> According to a Stack Overflow Developer Survey, almost 90% of developers use Git, while Mercurial is the least popular version control system with only about 3% developer adoption. In fact, Mercurial usage on Bitbucket is steadily declining, and the percentage of new Bitbucket users choosing Mercurial has fallen to less than 1%.