My understanding is that Mercurial is sort of Beta to Git's VHS. There are some definite advantages, but it's losing support.

I am sure that it is because the porn industry settled on Git :)

Anyways, I started on Mercurial, and I think it has a better UX, but technically I now prefer Git. The success of Mercurial over Git surprised me a little because of that, Git is not an easy version control system to get into, at least when compared to Mercurial, it shouldn't help adoption, but I guess it is just because some big names decided on Git.

Mercurial and Git use the same fundamental principles, and one is not really better than the other, just details.

I thought all the cool kids were on Pijul, or was it Darcs? Maybe it was Fossil? No wait, it was definitely Jujutsu.

Can confirm that cool kids are definitely using Fossil