C++ is a more type safe language than C, and some of these “duplicated“ features are actually adding safety to the C versions. Most of these “duplications“ are

C++ is a more type safe language than C, and some of these “duplicated“ features are actually adding safety to the C versions. Most of these “duplications“ are quite in line with the C++ philosophy and are there for a good reason, reducing countless bugs and making code safer. And comparing a function pointer to a lambda expression is quite laughable.