> Git took the early lead and never looked back. And GitHub's competitors were too slow to embrace Git. So GitHub dominated developer mindshare.
And Mercurial spent an enormous amount of effort going after Windows users and basically got absolutely nothing for it.
In my opinion, this was what really hurt Mercurial. Nobody in Windows-land was going to use anything other than the official Microsoft garbage. Consequently, every ounce of effort spent on Windows was effort completely wasted that could have been spent competing with Git/Github.
And Mercurial spent an enormous amount of effort going after Windows users and basically got absolutely nothing for it.
In my opinion, this was what really hurt Mercurial. Nobody in Windows-land was going to use anything other than the official Microsoft garbage. Consequently, every ounce of effort spent on Windows was effort completely wasted that could have been spent competing with Git/Github.