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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by Shorel on Monday November 06, 2023 @10:12AM (#38163655)
> Sad to see another Mercurial holdout switch to Git.

I am very happy when something like this happens. It means performance matters and a performant implementation is rewarded with market share.

This performance is what made git win, even if the “porcelain”, the CLI commands we use, are not as well-designed as the ones in Mercurial.

Hopefully one day we will no longer use any chat client written in Electron. =)

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Re:Firefox Development Is Moving from Mercurial to Git by rickydroll on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:48AM (#38165002)
> It means performance matters and a performant implementation is rewarded with market share.

by this you mean technical group think or monoculture?

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