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Microsoft releases a quantum development kit with Q#

Dec 11, 2017

Microsoft releases a preview of its Quantum Development Kit, including the Q# programming language, simulators, libraries, and examples. Developers can write and test quantum programs on conventional computers.

Why it matters

Quantum software development becomes accessible through a major software platform before large fault-tolerant hardware exists.

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• IBM releases Qiskit, an open-source toolkit for programming quantum computers (Mar 7, 2017)
• Google releases Cirq for programming quantum computers (Jul 18, 2018)