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It could've been mercurial, but I'm glad that didn't happen. Being shouted at in a mailing-list for fixing a bug doesn't sound like fun. Also, the amount of CPU resources that would be wasted running a VCS in python would be phenomenal. And have fun trying to develop a project using a separate python version than supported by your python VCS.
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If Mercurial were as popular as Git I would presume that it would be rewritten in C or Rust, but who can say.
I'm sure it could, but no one thinks it's worth their time when Git is right there and does the same job.