I would argue that it's not meaningful to do so for larger files with comptime as there doesn't seem to be a need for parsing JSON like the target platform would (comptime emulates it) - I expect it to be independent. You're also not supposed to do I/O using comptime, and @embedFile kind of falls under that. I suppose it would be better to write a build.zig for this particularly use case, which I think would then also be able to run fast native code?