Episode 370
Physical Units and a System of Quantities
Mateusz Pusz joins Phil and new guest co-host, Anastasia Kazakova. Mateusz talks to us about his physical units (and quantities) library, mp-units, why v2 is a complete redesign compared to the previous version, and how incorporating a system of quanti...
CppCast · Phil Nash & Timur Doumler
October 20, 202357m 38s
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Show Notes
Mateusz Pusz joins Phil and new guest co-host, Anastasia Kazakova. Mateusz talks to us about his physical units (and quantities) library, mp-units, why v2 is a complete redesign compared to the previous version, and how incorporating a system of quantities is so central to this new design.
News
- clang 17 released
- Conference videos released in October
- AMA with Abbas Sabra (automatic/ static analysis)
- Is it too hard for junior developers to get on the C++ career ladder (Reddit)
Links
- mp-units on GitHub
- mp-units - Documentation
- C++ on Sea 2023 video
- The Mars Climate Orbiter crash
- p1935 - "A C++ Approach to Physical Units"
- p2980 - "A motivation, scope, and plan for a physical quantities and units library"
- p2981 - "Improving our safety with a physical quantities and units library"
- p2982 - "std::quantity as a numeric type"
- p3003 - "The design of a library of number concepts"