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there already is one for Visual Studio! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/development-kit https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/development-kit It's a
by currymj 8y ago
there already is one for Visual Studio!
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/development-kit https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/development-kit
It's actually a reasonable way to play around with simulations of quantum algorithms, much nicer than multiplying huge matrices which is typically what you'd otherwise do when learning. But it is a little silly that we have a quantum IDE before a usable quantum computer has been built.
- eveningcoffee 8y agoI think that the idea is that if these machines will be ever built then there would be at least some work force that has at least some idea what to do with them. Also Microsoft will have some advandage. This is probably the main motivation here. This of course does not guarantee that the interface of an actual QC would be anything like this.
- alasdair_ 8y ago>But it is a little silly that we have a quantum IDE before a usable quantum computer has been built. Nonsense! With a quantum debugger, we'll finally be able to find out if Schrodinger's cat is alive or dead!
- chillacy 8y agoAda Lovelace is said to have written the first computer algorithm for the Analytical Engine even though it wasn't built, though I did some googling and wasn't able to find the text itself.
- rhelmer 8y agoThis was actually discussed on HN previously, with a link to the text: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17797003 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17797003