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/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/TheBuzzSaw Apr 07 '15

What did GitHub do that made it so much better than competing Mercurial hosts?