minus-squaredarkpanda@lemmy.catoProgramming@programming.dev•Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 yearslinkfedilinkarrow-up20·5 days agoIf Mercurial were as popular as Git I would presume that it would be rewritten in C or Rust, but who can say. linkfedilink
minus-squaredarkpanda@lemmy.catoProgramming@programming.dev•Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 yearslinkfedilinkarrow-up20·5 days agoAlso Subsurface, a scuba diving log program, but that one is not quite as well known. https://subsurface-divelog.org/ linkfedilink
If Mercurial were as popular as Git I would presume that it would be rewritten in C or Rust, but who can say.