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> For my personal usage, I'm working on replacing Docker builds for some Go projects that rely heavily on CGO by using `zig cc`. I'm not using the Zig language itself, but this could be considered one of its use cases.

Hm, i can see a good use case when we want to have reproducible builds from go packages, including its C extensions. Is that your use case, or are you aiming for multi-environment support of your compiled "CGO extensions"

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My use cases similar to this https://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com/posts/golang-zig-cross-co...

need to bundle a lot of C libraries, some using dynamic linking and some using static linking, and I need to deploy them on different operating systems, including some that are difficult to work with like RHEL. Right now the builds are slow because I use a separate Dockerfile for each platform and then copy the binary back to the host. With Zig CC I could build binaries for different platforms and architectures without using Docker.

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