After a few days exploring and writing some #zig, I am intrigued and see myself using it more in the future. Unfortunately, the openbsd zig build is not able to do incremental compilation, and on my *very* small system, compilation of a simple program is taking about 10s. On my more modern linux box, it's near instant. This is a local constraint of my workstation project, and not a real deficiency in zig, IMO.
May be time for me to turn my silence nuc into a more powerful openbsd workstation..