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Comment by vsskanth

This is a pretty niche acausal language, and is used extensively in Motorsports (F1, NASCAR) for real-time simulation on the driver simulator.

The language spec is open source but there many commercial compilers, Dymola is the most popular.

I code in this language extensively and its acausal nature is extremely powerful. It makes your models highly composable, you can basically assemble a mechanical system like a bunch of lego blocks and the equations fall out automatically. You can also easily invert your models.

The closest analogy in the programming world is Haskell.

parent vsskanth 1 year ago

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