> I believe Chromium development often uses a mode with .dlls dynamic linking instead of what they release which is all static linked exactly to speed up incremental development. The "fast" case is C not C++.

Bevy, a Rust ECS framework for building games (among other things), has a similar solution by offering a build/rust "feature" that enables dynamic linking (called "dynamic_linking"). https://bevy.org/learn/quick-start/getting-started/setup/#dy...