Did you try the stuff you are proposing? This is all a royal pita in real world projects which the Zig toolchain solved wonderfully. (also it's a myth that STB

Did you try the stuff you are proposing? This is all a royal pita in real world projects which the Zig toolchain solved wonderfully. (also it's a myth that STB style libs increase compile time, that's only true for typical C++ header-only libs with inline methods and template code)