UNITS vs gcc-poison

UNITS

a compile-time, header-only, dimensional analysis and unit conversion library built on c++14 with no dependencies. (by nholthaus)

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nholthaus.github.io

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gcc-poison

gcc-poison (by leafsr)

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UNITS		gcc-poison
	Project
3	Mentions	-
921	Stars	190
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
22 days ago	Latest Commit	over 10 years ago
C++	Language	Objective-C
MIT License	License	-

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UNITS

Posts with mentions or reviews of UNITS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-09.

I want some logically difficult c programs
5 projects | /r/C_Programming | 9 Dec 2023

C++ Version
EzGz - An easy to use single header no dependency library for decompression of .gz archives written in modern C++ (probably faster than zlib)
4 projects | /r/cpp | 15 Nov 2022

You may be right about this. I'm actually mainly concerned about including as just including it can increase binary size substantially, see e.g. https://github.com/nholthaus/units/issues/32
C++ lib for handling SI units
3 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 8 Dec 2021

I personally use, and recommend, the units library by Holthaus: https://github.com/nholthaus/units

gcc-poison

Posts with mentions or reviews of gcc-poison. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing UNITS and gcc-poison you can also consider the following projects:

Scintilla

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Experimental Boost.DI - C++14 Dependency Injection Library

stdman - Formatted C++20 stdlib man pages (cppreference)

Serial Communication Library - Cross-platform, Serial Port library written in C++

STX - C++17 & C++ 20 error-handling and utility extensions.

ZXing - ZXing ("Zebra Crossing") barcode scanning library for Java, Android

libsigc++

American Fuzzy Lop - american fuzzy lop - a security-oriented fuzzer

RE2 - RE2 is a fast, safe, thread-friendly alternative to backtracking regular expression engines like those used in PCRE, Perl, and Python. It is a C++ library.