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 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"