Zig build system and river Wayland compositor

[Felix Lechner]

Hi,

I declared Bug#60889, [1] which provides a Zig build system, as a
prerequisite for Bug#64208. [2] The latter packages two Zig
applications that use the build system in the former.

One of the Zig applications is a new Wayland compositor called River. [3][4]

The Debbugs change is not visible in Mumi, so a brief note here seemed
appropriate. The bug control system [5] has in fact many advanced
features that can help manage large numbers of bugs. Like most large
software projects, GNU Guix has a lot of open patches and bug reports.

While I have everyone's attention, I'd also like to take the
opportunity to ask any available committers to please review the new
Zig build system.

Zig is an exciting language. [6] Using strong but inferred types, it
brings many of Rust's ideas to a language that looks and compiles like
C yet feels like a script. I like GNU Guile much better but to this
author, Zig appears as a more natural evolution of the C ecosystem for
system-level programming than Golang. (I hope neither Rob Pike or Ken
Thompson take offense.)

Most notably, the Zig tooling is super easy to use, especially for
wasm32-wasi. Please try it one day & thanks!

Kind regards
Felix

cc: Ekaitz

[1] https://debbugs.gnu.org/60889
[2] https://debbugs.gnu.org/64208
[3] https://isaacfreund.com/blog/river-intro/
[4] https://archive.fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/zig_wayland/
[5] https://debbugs.gnu.org/server-control.html
[6] 
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3689648/meet-the-zig-programming-language.html