D and Emacs [ was Re: Move VisualD to github/d-programming-language ? ]

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 09.09.2013 19:47, schrieb Russel Winder:
> On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 19:37 +0200, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> […]
>> Actually this was just a shout-out to a few years back when we were both fairly
>> active members of the bzr mailing list :-)  I do still follow it, but I think
>> sadly you are now one of the few remaining active list members ... ?
>
> :-)
>
> and
>
> :-(
>
> Bazaar (and Mercurial) were the only usable DVCSs early on, but already
> by 2006, O'Reilly had decided that Git was the winner and everything
> else was history – they effectively created a self-fulfilling prophecy.
> Git has over the years been bullied into being almost usable, Bazaar has
> lost it's major supporter and Mercurial drifts on the edge of being
> mainstream relevant. The USP of Git for me is remote tracking branches.
> I forgive a lot of unusability in Git for that.
>
> The interesting player in the game that is still around and really good,
> but very few have heard of is Fossil.
>

On Windows world, Mercurial still has the edge over Git, given the poor 
Windows support.

This will eventually change given the recent endorsement Microsoft has 
given to Git on their tooling, but it will still take some time to change.

--
Paulo