> Git was always way better than Mercurial.
How is Git better than Mercurial in any way nevermind "always way better". Serious question.
I'd possibly accept "the original Mercurial implementation was Python which was slow". And perhaps that's why Git won rather than GitHub. But I don't think so.
hard disagree. Git was always way better than Mercurial.
> It won because of GitHub.
I and most of the developers I have worked with over the years all used git for many years before ever even trying GitHub. GitHub obviously has helped adoption, but I'm not convinced that git would not have won even if GitHub had never existed.