Is there a need for non-Git dvcs hosting?

Darcs, monotone(1), and arch all seemed really interesting back in the day.. I was really rooting for Darcs and Monotone.

Then one day git and mercurial popped up and grabbed the limelight.

And now Git seems to have stolen the show... Pijul seems pretty cool - but its hard to compete with the 800 lb gorilla.

1) https://www.monotone.ca/

- Fossil has the cool all-in-one feature-set

- darcs and sapling do away with staging

- darcs doesn't support local branches ):

- sapling (distant fork of Mercurial) has a simpler interface than git, and is better for straight line development where there's implicit rebasing of patches rather than branch and merge