https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/microsoft-quantum-toolkit/
At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced its moves to embrace the next big thing in computing: quantum computing. Later this year, Microsoft will release a new quantum computing programming language, with full Visual Studio integration, along with a quantum computing simulator. With these, developers will be able to both develop and debug quantum programs implementing quantum algorithms.
[...] Microsoft's quantum programming language—as yet unnamed—offers a more familiar look to programming quantum computers, borrowing elements from C#, Python, and F#. Developers will still need to use and understand quantum logic gates and their operations, but they'll be able to use them to write functions, with variables and branches and other typical constructs.
[...] It will have quite significant memory requirements. The local version will offer up to 32 qubits, but to do this will require 32GB of RAM. Each additional qubit doubles the amount of memory required. The Azure version will scale up to 40 qubits.
Also at Fossbytes.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday September 27 2017, @06:21AM (2 children)
It's not as if there were not already many quantum programming languages. [quantiki.org] Especially look at the section for imperative quantum programming. The only difference I see is the concrete languages those are based on. I admit that Microsoft's choice of languages is more buzzwordy.
Oh, and of course MS has two "sharp" languages in the list. The motive should be obvious.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday September 27 2017, @07:42AM
Depending on how you look at that motive, you may see it obvious or not obvious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @04:28PM
Anyone taking bets on that language being called Q#?