> take me to the definition or declaration, stack those jumps so as I follow the links I can pop back a level to where I was.

Know any C/C++ IDE that would do this? I transitioned from Qt Creator to VSCode and none of those have helped me with this cool nicety you mention.

EDIT: I should add that for me, exploring foreign code bases has been hugely improved since I discovered Sourcetrail, so I'd suggest having a look at it to anyone interested in code exploration tools: https://www.sourcetrail.com/