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Introducing Numbat: A programming language with physical units as types (numbat.dev)
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[โ€“] vhstape@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wish I had this in engineering undergrad! Very cool.

[โ€“] Nawor3565@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 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.