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Pardon my tangent, is there any languages with first class, by default units support?

• akjssdk 5y ago
  Not by default, but Julia has various units packages which integrate fairly well with the rest of the ecosystem. Unitful.jl [1] is the most used one I believe and integrates with DifferentialEquations.jl for example. It should also work with many other things, but you might have to patch it up a bit, especially if operations change the units (such as derivatives). [1] https://github.com/PainterQubits/Unitful.jl https://github.com/PainterQubits/Unitful.jl
• isaacimagine 5y ago
  Yes, frink is one: https://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/ https://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/
• ThePadawan 5y ago
  There is some argument for C++11 which has user-defined literals: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/user_literal https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/user_literal
  • scotty79 5y ago
    Library for physical units using that feature would be awesome.
    • Too 5y ago
      Built into standard library for time units: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/symbol_index/chrono_literals https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/symbol_index/chrono_litera...
• walrus 5y ago
  F#
• dunefox 5y ago
  F# probably is best in class here: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/units-of-measure/ https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/units-of-measure/
• LegionMammal978 5y ago
  The Wolfram Language (i.e., the language used for Mathematica) supports units by default through the Quantity object [0], but the software is somewhat expensive for general-purpose use. [0] https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Quantity.html https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Quantity.html
• elteto 5y ago
  There is Frink [0] which was created for the manipulation of physical quantities. I used it extensively in college… imperial units for fluid dynamics? yuck! [0] https://frinklang.org/ https://frinklang.org/
• deleted 5y ago
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