uom-se VS UnitsNet

Looks like it is comparable to javax.measure (https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=363). I used an implementation of that a few years ago: https://github.com/unitsofmeasurement/uom-se

It's a complex domain, especially if you get down to having more complex units composed of other units and want to do conversions between metric and imperial. In our case we were dealing with material properties (chemical, physical, magnetic, etc.) and different countries and companies using different ways to record characteristics for materials.

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.