Well, they are trying to slim down, so to speak, the gap between C and C++ for the sake of a safer interoperability between the languages and for the sake of sa

Well, they are trying to slim down, so to speak, the gap between C and C++ for the sake of a safer interoperability between the languages and for the sake of safer and secure code. If C could fix _Generic from C11 and make it behave more like a lightweight version of templates, then I could say we have a huge potential of having a safer version of what we currently have.