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848 points thefilmore | 2 comments | 13 May 25 05:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.506s | source

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noobermin ◴[13 May 25 12:24 UTC] No.43972113[source]▶

I guess the dream is dead. Even in open source, we have consolidation with no real hard monetary markets involved.

EDIT: skimming these comments, I like how none of the top comments are talking about the bigger story here which is the move away from mercurial to git and instead everyone is focusing on github itself. This has essentially sealed hg away to obscurity forever. Do people not realise git is a program that runs on your computer and github is just a service that uses git? May be this is an old man gripe at this point but I'm surprised at the lack of technical discussion around this.

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1. dzaima ◴[13 May 25 13:23 UTC] No.43972671[source]▶

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This is far from the first project to move from hg to git; many people probably just generally expect that to happen upon any source code management change for anything still using mercurial, which has already been effectively dead for most people for years.

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2. noobermin ◴[13 May 25 13:46 UTC] No.43972945[source]▶

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My point doesn't really dispute that hg is dead "for most people" whatever that means, it's just that what the hg people could point to in the past was firefox, but now they've lost that example. Now, we can surely say it is dead.

To be frank, I know of no other major project that used hg. In fact, I think firefox was how I learned about it in the first place many years ago.

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