TL;DR: Here's my fork of [hid] version 0.7.1 that needs no XCode to build on Mac OS X (10.11.6 on my end, hopefully on later macOSses too):
Many moons and many kind nudges later, my version of [hid] is available from deken as
hid[v0.7.3](Darwin-amd64-32)(Sources).dek
The functionality is unchanged from 0.7.1. I just updated the build process to remove the XCode dependency and output a 64-bit AMD/Intel binary.
Thanks Alexandre, Christof, and others for the motivation! Thank you Hans-Christoph Steiner, the original author of [hid]!
Cheers, Albert.