Zig offers a C/C++ frontend as a drop-in replacement for Clang. It worked fine with Meson up to Zig 0.10. Since 0.11, Zig‘s dynamic linker reports itself as zig ld, which wasn’t known to Meson. Meson now correctly handles Zig's linker.
You can use Zig's frontend via a machine file:
[binaries] c = ['zig', 'cc'] cpp = ['zig', 'c++'] ar = ['zig', 'ar'] ranlib = ['zig', 'ranlib'] lib = ['zig', 'lib'] dlltool = ['zig', 'dlltool']