An extension of the zig ideas is making self contained portable and very small binaries that run everywhere from bare metal to any OS using a cross platform libc and configuring GCC or clang appropriately.

Check out cosmopolitan at https://justine.lol/cosmopolitan/index.html and background at https://justine.lol/ape.html

Aside: Zig and Zag were humourous puppet characters with attitude for adults in the UK. Always made me smile on the 'big breakfast' show in the 90s.