Crow VS UnitsNet

https://github.com/jpbruyere/Crow try to become an open source portable alternative.

If it's a very simple desktop app (win or linux), maybe you could give a chance to C.R.O.W., it's beta, and I try to keep it very simple (but extensible). You may test several simple tutorials and tell me what documentation you're missing, I'm currently updating the docs.

If some peoples are interesting in beta testing of c.r.o.w., I've prepared several small [introductive](https://github.com/jpbruyere/Crow/wiki/Tutorials) tutorials. You may use the [ShowCase](https://github.com/jpbruyere/Crow/tree/master/Samples/ShowCase) in the sample directory to test IML (the ui language of crow) in live. The helloworld sample has a small howto for installation. That's the first time I try to present this lib, be tolerant if you find bugs, it's far from a release version. Any bug report or advice is welcome. If you want to see it integrated in a vulkan 3d application check [vkChess.net](https://github.com/jpbruyere/VkChess.net) (there's a binary win beta release). It's a [stockfish](https://stockfishchess.org/) client. For several simple example integrated with vulkan check [VkCrowWindow library](https://github.com/jpbruyere/VkCrowWindow). Thanks for any returns, even critics ;-)

If engineering/scientific projects appeal to you, Units of measurement implementations for Java are woefully behind when compared with the likes of UnitsNet for C#.

Check out EngineeringUnits (https://github.com/MadsKirkFoged/EngineeringUnits), or UnitsNet (https://github.com/angularsen/UnitsNet)

https://github.com/angularsen/UnitsNet is sort of an extreme example of this, and their https://github.com/angularsen/UnitsNet/blob/master/Common/UnitDefinitions/Length.json gives an example of how to allow multiple names for units.

Just FYI: https://github.com/angularsen/UnitsNet

(I occasionally use https://github.com/angularsen/UnitsNet/, but it's not quite the same as doing it at the compiler level.)

UnitsNet does this for common units of measure, and for a more general solution, there's also ValueOf

Have you looked into using UnitsNet instead of rolling your own physical quantity library? I've used it before and it's pretty nice.

What would be best is if there was a library to use to convert things to and from measurements. This was what I first attempted, using The UnitsNet library. This library is excellent, and I recommend it to many people. The issue I have with it, is that it was far more in depth than what I need it to do.