[marcinkuzminski]

I think Mercurial hasn't lost it yet. I speak as a creator of Mercurial Source Code management system (RhodeCode)

We see that a lot of companies(our clients/users) adopting Mercurial, you just don't hear about it. Often those are companies with employees that don't tweet or post to HN ;)

RhodeCode is used also in around 60 universities, and we learned that in a lot of them they teach Mercurial as well as Git.

For a large company it's actually much cheaper to adapt Mercurial as they new DVCS because of learning curve.

I hope companies like Facebook and Mozilla will make soon Mercurial very very fast. There's constant work on it coming from those companies to improve it.

[RJIb8RBYxzAMX9u]

I don't think hg is going anywhere, if CVS is still alive and kicking in 2016, and especially since Facebook's using it. However, IMO hg lost when even python switched to git.