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qdk

Microsoft Quantum Development Kit, including the Q# programming language, resource estimator, and Quantum Katas

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7Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1KGitHub stars
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What it is

Microsoft Quantum Development Kit, including the Q# programming language, resource estimator, and Quantum Katas

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 3:38:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2023-06-21 18:50:09 UTC to 2026-04-06 12:31:00 UTC.

01232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20242025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I work on the quantum developer tools team at Microsoft. We put a lot of work into what we call the Quantum Katas to learn the basics via coding - https://quantum.microsoft.com/en-us/tools/quantum-katas Our VS Code extension is trivial to install (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/quantum/install-over...) or just try it entirely in the browser with Visual Studio Code online (https://vscode.dev/quantum/playground/) To support that last scenario, where the language service, debugger, simulator, even package references, can run entirely in the browser, we built the whole thing using Rust compiled to WebAssembly, and our VS Code extension runs as pure JavaScript and Wasm. If interested you can dig into the implementation at https://github.com/microsoft/qsharp . Happy to answer any questions!
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