Silq is a new high level programing language
Silq is a new high level programing language for quantum computers Image Credits: ALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Getty Images Quantum computing hardware continues to improve to the point where we may actually see real-world use cases in the next few years and so it’s probably no surprise that we are also seeing a steady increase in research projects that focus on how to best program these machines. One of the newest efforts in this space is Silq , a high-level programming language for quantum computers out of Switzerland’s ETH Zurich. The emphasis here is on “high-level programming language,” as the researchers behind the language note that existing quantum languages for programmers still work at a very low abstraction level, which makes life for quantum programmers a lot harder than necessary. “The history of the project is that we wanted to solve a core problem in quantum computing,” ETH associate professor of computer science Martin Vechev told me. “And if you want to
