• drspod@lemmy.ml
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    21 hours ago

    It’s insane they were still using Mercurial in 2025.

    What?

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        18 hours ago

        Dead? They just had a major version update 1 month ago and the last minor release was 1 week ago.

        What does Facebook using it have to do with anything?

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          6 hours ago

          Dead as in essentially nobody uses it. Apparently it’s used even less than SVN, which sounds kind of crazy. Doesn’t stop them developing it if they want I guess.

          Facebook is relevant because they were one of the last major users of Mercurial and were big contributors to it. They’ve moved to their own VCS Sapling now though.

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            4 hours ago

            What’s the actual argument here? If Mercurial satisfies/satisfied the development team, then they should use it. I don’t find this crazy. Like others pointed out, it’s not like Mercurial was a dead project without maintenance.

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            4 hours ago

            Apparently it’s used even less than SVN,

            Going to need a source for this.