Microsoft ports its Quantum Development Kit to Linux and macOS

Microsoft has ported its Quantum Development Kit to Linux and macOS. Redmond first announced its forays into quantum computing at the Ignite conference in September 2017 and in December of the same year gave its efforts a name – Q#. In the absence of genuinely quantum hardware to run on, Q# (with its Visual Studio integration …

[HmmmYes]

Fuck that.

Get a C99 compliant C compiler in Visual Studio first.

[TVU]

Microsoft being Unix-friendly

"Microsoft ports its Quantum Development Kit to Linux and macOS"

A few years ago, that would have been revolutionary news but today, thankfully, it's relatively commonplace.

[TheGreatCabbage]

I like that Microsoft is doing open-source and putting software on Linux.

Maybe one day they'll replace the Windows kernel with the Linux kernel (obviously not being serious with that last bit).

[Ian Johnston]

Is this software open source?

[Lyndon Hills 1]

Schroedinger's Snake

I was hoping this was a quantum version of the old Nokia game...

[aerwidh]

Re: Schroedinger's Snake

A version where, if you look away from the screen, your snake both grows longer and doesn't until you observe it again?

[Jason Hindle]

Re: Schroedinger's Snake

Call it a quantum pause.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Schroedinger's Snake

Quantum paws may or may not be part of Schroedinger's cat

[Patricia]

Great but

"Quantum" and "AI" are the new buzzwords. Just like "cloud computing " was several years ago (and we see how that goes, love or leave it). Microsoft is going to do.....something, wether its of value or actually useful or even works correctly, doesn't matter at this point in time, that's why it's simulated.

I guarantee this year, someone will hear some pointy hair boss wanting to get into that quantum money somehow, so, my take on this is, everyone start figuring a way to benefit from this. My suggestion, a week long quantum training course somewhere in the Bahamas. Got to be IT related.

You heard it here first, by winter 2018 this will happen. If not, at least a both article on it.

[Speltier]

Re: Great but

There are a couple of back to back PQC conferences in Fort Lauderdale FL in April 2018. Enjoy dawn to dusk dense mathematical presentations on Post Quantum Cryptography. Stop worrying about "here we go again" reactions to Spectre and SgxPectre and all that light weight management drivel, and explode your fuzzy head with wondrous new algorithmic insights.

Some of us are working in the engine rooms of the CyberDyne Legions to prepare the infrastructure to resist the coming quantum cryptographic apocalypse. It's noisy in here, but someone has to do it.