I don't have much Zig experience at all, but from what I've read Zig is pretty genius because in addition to being a Zig compiler -- with its own sane build sys

I don't have much Zig experience at all, but from what I've read Zig is pretty genius because in addition to being a Zig compiler -- with its own sane build system -- the same tool also acts as a C/C++ compiler. So mixing Zig and C/C++ has a lot less friction.