alt Hacker NewsMercurial has a strictly superior API. The issue is solely that OG Mercurial was written in Python.
Git is super mid. It’s a shame that Git and GitHub are so dominant that VCS tooling has stagnated. It could be so so so much better!
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Whatever your opinion on one tool or another might be - it does seem weird that the "market" has been captured by what you are saying is a lesser product.
IOW, what do you know that nobody else does?
> The issue is solely that OG Mercurial was written in Python.
Are we back to "programming language X is slow" assertions? I thought those had died long ago.
Better algorithms win over 'better' programming languages every single time. Git is really simple and efficient. You could reimplement it in Python and I doubt it would see any significant slowness. Heck, git was originally implemented as a handful of low level binaries stitched together with shell scripts.
Mercurial can't rebase without an extension, or force push. Are you using a definition of strictly superior that means it has fewer features?