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April 2, 2026

# engineering

Digest

We rewrote git in zig and:

Rather than start with the theory behind the "swarming", we'll share how to code cannon yourself, describe how our zig rewrite of git went, and then dive into some of our theory behind why this works.

How to code cannon yourself

Install vers CLI

First you'll need the vers CLI installed.

$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hdresearch/vers-cli/main/install.sh | sh

After you've installed it, log in.

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