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Introducing Numbat: A programming language with physical units as types (numbat.dev)
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[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

When something is enforced on type level it doesn't require your memory and usually doesn't require computation.

As of lately I came to think that being explicit is mostly better than being expressive. So in this case stating all the units might work better than having a concise progtam.