No, it's not that. You can actually do those things in C#. You just can't do them at compile time. You have to use introspection or the dynamic keyword and do

No, it's not that. You can actually do those things in C#. You just can't do them at compile time. You have to use introspection or the dynamic keyword and do it at runtime. In order to do what you're suggesting at compile time, you'd need a type of types, and then you'll run into the decidability paradox.