Microsoft's Quantum Development Kit goes open source on GitHub

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Announcement form Microsoft about open sourcing Quantum Devleopment Kit (QDK). The QDK launched in preview last year, and is Microsoft’s attempt to get developers familiar with quantum computing before it goes mainstream. Developers will now be able to contribute to the QDK’s development via GitHub. Quantum for everyone.

“By open-sourcing the Quantum Development Kit in GitHub, we enable developers to contribute alongside an emerging community of quantum computing programmers,” Microsoft said in a blog post announcing its plans to open source the QDK earlier this year. “We initiated this work last year when we open-sourced several features of the Quantum Development Kit, including the libraries and samples.”

Quantum computing is largely seen as the next major frontier in computing. Great!

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