Quantum computers aren’t yet practical, but Microsoft has already developed a programming language for them. Q# works inside Visual Studio, just like most other languages, and could offer ...

Microsoft today launched a preview version of a new programming language for quantum computing called Q#. The industry giant also launched a quantum simulator that developers can use to test and ...

At this year's Build conference, Microsoft announced it will open source the Q# compiler and quantum simulators. This is part of Microsoft's push to get developers to code with its Q# quantum ...

Microsoft is offering a developer kit to help get started in quantum computing and using the company’s quantum-focused Q# programming language. Microsoft has been bullish lately on quantum ...

Open-sourcing the compiler — which takes code written by developers in a programming language and makes it run on a computer — could help budding quantum developers better understand how to ...

It’s a process very similar to the one I used at my first programming job, writing Fortran finite-element analysis code that used a vector processor attached to a supercomputer to handle matrix ...