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C has generics as well. This permits the return type of generic functions to be preserved.

The only generic feature C has is the _Generic expression, which isn't a function, but closer to a switch(typeof(x)) expression.

_Generic can be used to merge a collection of functions.

That's not the same as being able to write a data structure that takes any type.

It's still generic. You don't have to have feature parity with C++ to meet that bar.

That would be like calling function overloading generics.

It should have been called _Overload or something similar, since it's not really a generic.