[Python-Dev] And the winner is...

[Guido van Rossum]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Mike Coleman <tutufan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just for curiosity's sake, could someone outline the five (or so) most
> significant pluses of hg relative to git?
>
>
> (My personal feeling is that any of the three is a huge improvement
> over subversion.  I think git probably should have been written in
> Python with some stuff in C where necessary, and (perhaps) the hg guy
> really is right when he claims that Linus should have skipped git and
> used hg from the start.  That notwithstanding, though, it kind of
> looks like git has won the mindshare war at this point, and I think
> the best hg can hope for from this point forward is a sort of *BSD to
> git's Linux.  I do hope that it lives on, shutouts being fascist, etc.

Yeah, I also think I'll just stop developing Python now and suggest
that you all switch to Java, which has clearly won the mindshare war
for languages. :-)

> Aside: I once worked with the guy maintaining git, and he might have
> the greatest sum of talent plus humility of any programmer I ever
> met.)

But is his humility enough to cancel out Linus's attitude?

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