Not quite true, there is already a capable C compiler written in Zig (Aro/arocc), and a plan to transition to it for C compilation: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/translate-c

Using this native (written in Zig) C compiler to translate C source into Zig source as a part of the build, would presumably lend itself trivially to all the incremental logic in TFA, as updating C would update the generated Zig, and the incremental logic would detect differences just like it detects differences made by a human in an editor. Maybe there are aspects of the generated Zig that would complicate that somewhat, but I don't know -- just a warning about my ignorance.

This is part of plans to remove the hard LLVM dependency. AFAIK, the LLVM dependency will still be a variant many will use for the convenience of Zig as a much better clang, but removing the hard dependency is part of enabling all these great features like incremental compilation.

> a plan to transition to it for C compilation

That's not planned AFAIK (see https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16269). `translate-c` is really only intended for header translation, not C source code.

See https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/20875 for the (not fully fleshed out yet) plans around C compilation.