Build with Zig

[sjomae]

This is music for the future, but might be already good for consideration, also when thinking about the solution for 'standalone` (meaning, distribution of SC in a custom made ready to share and install package #311).

Zig build system promises to make crossplatform building more easy and faster. This could potentially make it more easy to distribute SC on any platform and lower the barrier for users to get access to SC or derived systems like Tidal Cycles.

Zig has it's own package manager for dependencies. The company Uber is already using it for it's crossplatform compiling capabilities, but it's probably to early to make this as a dependency at the moment.

More info:

https://ziglang.org/

https://kristoff.it/blog/maintain-it-with-zig/

https://youtu.be/wFlyUzUVFhw?t=1776

[JordanHendersonMusic]

Just thought I'd pop in some more info for when the point about zig dropping llvm inevitably comes up.

The gh issue:
ziglang/zig#16270

A comment from Andrew clarifying — probably the most important for this conversation.
ziglang/zig#16270 (comment)