▲ 155 ▼ Introducing Numbat: A programming language with physical units as types (numbat.dev) submitted 2 years ago by bugsmith@programming.dev [M] to c/programming@programming.dev 23 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] vhstape@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 years ago (1 child) Wish I had this in engineering undergrad! Very cool. permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 years 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. permalink fedilink source parent