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FYI you might find the GNU units(1) tool useful, which has a huge catalog of units and understands about the same set of math operations as a scientific calculators. From the demo I actually thought this was using GNU units in the background.

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That's pretty cool. I did search for a unit calculation library before starting this but since WASM is a priority I wanted to use a Rust one.

You should still be able to compile GNU units to WASM with Emscripten. No idea how easy that is when combined with Rust though.

Check out Rink: https://github.com/tiffany352/rink-rs

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