I eventually developed an extremely crude shell script that automated at least a little bit of that.

But the other thing that kept happening is that I would need to run different release versions of Zig in addition to the dev build. (Some Zig software authors wisely pick a release version for their applications. So you need to use those release versions to build that application.)

So now I’ve got two scripts:

zignew extracts a new Zig build tarball and updates my symlink.

zigswitch uses fuzzy matching (so cool!) to let me pick from a menu of installed Zig versions and updates the symlink.