Introducing Numbat: A programming language with physical units as types

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• kibiz0r@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  F# has a feature kinda like this: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/…/units-of-measure

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  • aluminium@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thought the same, plus you have the massive .NET Ecosystem.

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• vhstape@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wish I had this in engineering undergrad! Very cool.

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  • Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m currently in engineering undergrad and this looks like it’ll be a lifesaver. Wolfram Alpha can do some pretty good work with units sometimes. But a lot of the time it’ll do weird stuff like refuse to interpret “V” as “volt”, so you have to type out the full name of every single unit. This language should handle that a million times better.

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• solrize@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve always thought Frink (frinklang.org) looked pretty cool. It’s been around forever. I’ve never used it though.

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• lupec@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fascinating idea, that was an interesting read! Don’t think I’d ever seen something like that done before.

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• OmnipotentEntity@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is a cool idea. There are other programming languages that have libraries that expose similar behavior. For instance, Rust has the uom crate, Haskell has the units package, and C++ has the header only library SI.

  But there is something to be said about it being built in.

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• aluminium@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There exist a bunch of libraries designed for kotlin using its extension methods and properties system to produce the same, like this one : github.com/vsirotin/si-units

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• tiny_electron@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I would have loved to use that when I was studying physics

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• silas@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reminds me a bit of the [Numi](numi.app calculator) calculator (which is awesome btw)

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• stilgar@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This looks like a lot of fun to use, I loved the example from What If, so many units!

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• monotremata@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I do a lot of this stuff with the HP48 Units menu (albeit at this point via an emulator on my phone).

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• Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reminds me of Mathcad and Calca

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