Passionate developer in Java and Scala. And sometimes, something else. A few months per year, someone calls me "professor". CoFounder of Scala By The Lagoon @scalagoon
The sad state of the affairs is that, after losing the JDK, that was one of the last "high profile" repositories that still used mercurial, I think it is sliding (not even slowly) towards irrelevance.
It is very very unlikely that the "gitops" ecosystem will care to add an option for the source repository tool. It will, however, become a problem sometime in the future; when it happens, a replacement will probably need to be something far for modern and robust even than Mercurial.
An interesting candidate for this role is Pijul. It has a well thought theory behind it, a quite good execution (that is, is dogfooding a log), and a hard look back at the history of the VCS toolset. With a heavy heart, I suggest you that your valuable free time will be better spent experimenting with that.
I'll continue to use mercurial in my university classes, to expose the students to something good.
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The sad state of the affairs is that, after losing the JDK, that was one of the last "high profile" repositories that still used mercurial, I think it is sliding (not even slowly) towards irrelevance.
It is very very unlikely that the "gitops" ecosystem will care to add an option for the source repository tool. It will, however, become a problem sometime in the future; when it happens, a replacement will probably need to be something far for modern and robust even than Mercurial.
An interesting candidate for this role is Pijul. It has a well thought theory behind it, a quite good execution (that is, is dogfooding a log), and a hard look back at the history of the VCS toolset. With a heavy heart, I suggest you that your valuable free time will be better spent experimenting with that.
I'll continue to use mercurial in my university classes, to expose the students to something good.