Comment by DrNosferatu

Zig CC + Vulkan would solve most of these issues:

1. Zig's toolchain statically links with musl libc, producing binaries that depend only on the Linux kernel syscall ABI, not any specific glibc version.

2. This eliminates all the symbol versioning nightmares (`GLIBC_2.xx not found`) that plague distribution across different Linux systems.

3. Vulkan provides a standardized, vendor-neutral GPU API that's supported across all modern graphics hardware, eliminating driver-specific dependencies.

4. The resulting binary is completely self-contained - no external library dependencies, no version mismatches, no containerization needed.

5. You get forward AND backward compatibility - the binary will run on both ancient and cutting-edge distros without modification.

The only real limitation is for NVIDIA CUDA-specific workloads, where you'd still need their proprietary stack.

Furthermore, for those who prefer a higher-level API, Zig CC + WebGPU offers similar benefits with a simpler programming model, though with slightly less mature implementations and a possible small performance overhead.