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Usually that boils down to "we don't want to bother with the vendors IDE", e.g. MPLAB.

I know C and C++ since 1992, used them across multiple OSes, hardly seen anything that would motivate the fashion of header only files.

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You've never in 28 years lost a single day to a compiler/linker flags/version mismatch and some random tool? I find that difficult to imagine. The horrifying alternative would be that such situations had been encountered but considered justifiable productive work

No, because I either used what was provided by the OS vendor, or library providers that were selling libraries for the deployment we wanted to do.

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