File embedding seems to have been a low priority for the standard, perhaps because there's always been workarounds, but it has gotten some attention recently wi

File embedding seems to have been a low priority for the standard, perhaps because there's always been workarounds, but it has gotten some attention recently with the std::embed proposal: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p1040r0.html http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p104...