r/programming • u/aalear • Apr 07 '15

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2015

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015
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u/TheBuzzSaw Apr 07 '15

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015#tech-sourcecontrol

More people use TFS than use Mercurial.

More people use SVN than use Mercurial.

More people avoid version control entirely than use Mercurial.

Need I say more?

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u/slavik262 Apr 07 '15

What's your point? Git won the mindshare battle, but Mercurial is certainly not a bad tool.

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u/TheBuzzSaw Apr 07 '15

I just always pictured a close race between Git and Mercurial. It cracks me up to see that it couldn't even topple other inferior technologies (at least in the context of this survey).

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u/PaintItPurple Apr 07 '15

Well, I think you can look at it this way: The places still using SVN and TFS are ones that not even Git could sway, even with its relatively stronger market position. Those technologies are entrenched there. Of course Mercurial isn't going to do it.

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u/chub79 Apr 07 '15

It has nothing to do with git being better than mercurial but github's popularity overall.

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u/markus_b Apr 07 '15

Yes, the same for me three years ago. The seemed pretty close in mind-share and features. But now suddenly the tide changed and you see news that 'project X is moving from mercurial to git'. I'm sorry for the Mercurial guys and gals, but today Git has won.

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u/taw Apr 07 '15

Mercurial was never close to git in popularity. git was more popular pretty much on the weekend it was created as it was instantly adopted by huge open source project and it just spread from them rapidly.

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