6 engineers on Hacker News describe using Darcs first-hand: 1 endorse it, 2 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“We were using Darcs on what was then still a small code base and already started running into operations sometimes taking tens of minutes.”
regret · production · vanviegen · 2025-02-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Git was a major step down, UX-wise, when we switched from Darcs back in 2008... Darcs, at the time, had a huge performance edge case”
mixed · production · atombender · 2017-02-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used darcs years ago before switching to git. I liked it a lot, but git had more support/momentum so we switched.”
endorse · production · klancaster · 2013-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I tried using Darcs at work for a fairly large codebase (2.5M LOC), in 2006/2007. It was a disaster.”
regret · production · 1 yr · jwr · 2012-05-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I had originally chosen Darcs, then switched to Mercurial, then we switched to Git”
neutral · production · williamstein · 2016-09-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“This is the same reason we switched from darcs to git.”
neutral · production · rscale · 2013-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?