Having "cc" as a sub-command with a space has caused some issues with Go (cgo), make, autotools, etc [0].

The latest proposal from andrewrk is a new zig subcommand which would automatically generate wrappers ("zig-cc", "zig-c++", etc) for for the target, then set them in the current env ("CC=zig-cc", "CXX=zig-c++") [1].

[0]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/8716

[1]: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/8973

  $ alias zcc='zig cc'

Only works interactively, though.