Microsoft's Quantum Development Kit comes to Mac and Linux

Microsoft today appear a number of enhancements to its Breakthrough Development Kit (QDK), including back up for new platforms. The QDK first launched in December for Windows, only Microsoft is at present launching information technology for developers on Mac and Linux. Additionally, Microsoft has open up-sourced its quantum development libraries and samples, and greatly improved simulator performance, and more than.

Support for Mac and Linux was the nearly requested characteristic from developers, Microsoft says. With its launch, developers on those platforms volition exist able to build applications using Microsoft's Q# language and test them in the quantum simulator.

In terms of QDK updates, Microsoft has added interoperability with the Python programming language. Developers can now take advantage existing libraries of Python code while writing in Q#. "Bachelor as a preview on Windows today, Python interoperability allows Q# code to call Python routines directly, and vice-versa," Microsoft says. The company has also open-sourced its quantum development libraries and samples in an effort to let developers re-utilize that code in their own applications.

Lastly, Microsoft says it has improved performance of the breakthrough simulator past iv-to-five times, allowing developers to test their code much more chop-chop.

Microsoft'southward QDK launched in December equally a way for developers to get a jump on learning to code for quantum computers earlier the hardware is available. The preview is a portion of Microsoft' long-term vision for quantum computing, which has the potential to bring dramatic changes to nearly every manufacture due to its theoretical speed. For case, it's expected that quantum computers could perform incredibly fast calculations for things that would have years, decades, or centuries to perform on the most advanced computers nosotros have today.

If yous're a developer interested in checking out these changes, y'all tin grab the latest version of the QDK at Microsoft at present. And for more, cheque out a demonstration with the latest features in the video below.

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