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[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

If Mercurial were as popular as Git I would presume that it would be rewritten in C or Rust, but who can say.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I'm sure it could, but no one thinks it's worth their time when Git is right there and does the same job.

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