I wrote a summarizing article on type safe container types a while back, but
with some C23 specific changes and a few tweaks to work better for complex types.
Lol at some point just implement a small compiler in C… reflection is kinda a hilarious thing to have like I understand the use case for generics, since it's not that that that hard to do with macros and quite commonly wished for
https://louissven.xyz/article/how_I_do_container_types_in_C....
Feel free to flag/delete if this isn't the place.
Still feels a bit like a party trick, but if it works...
just as was done with C++?
He also has other interesting C techniques, namely;
Adding reflection to C - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49964525
_Generic for Type Reification in C - https://www.davidpriver.com/creification.html
See also his C2y interpreter with REPL named "DrC" for the upcoming C29 standard (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C29_(C_standard_revision)) - https://github.com/drpriver/drc
PS: I really like his style of writing and presentation; concise and precise without unnecessary fluff and page beautifying.