implicit parameters of generic traits (aka the typeclass pattern) have everything to do with how Scala&#x27;s generics can be used in more powerful ways than C#&#x27;s. And they are 100% tied to Scala&#x27;s generics. Generic types in Scala can be used in implicit search kick off inductive generation of type-safe code.<p>If you literally just mean generics at runtime, they are no different than Java&#x27;s, outside of support for specialization for primitive types.<p>&gt; Perhaps the OP was referring to the type system instead?<p>Generics and the type system are pretty much the same thing? They only matter and have true power at compile time regardless of your language. So the fact that Scala&#x27;s generics have absurd power at compile-time (way more than anything in C#) is 100% relevant.