{"id":73156,"date":"2017-10-08T15:02:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T22:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/microsoft-unveils-programming-language-for-quantum-computing"},"modified":"2017-10-08T15:02:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T22:02:30","slug":"microsoft-unveils-programming-language-for-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/microsoft-unveils-programming-language-for-quantum-computing","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Unveils Programming Language for Quantum Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At its Ignite developer conference yesterday, Microsoft announced that it has developed a new programming language designed to not only run on current computers but on the most advanced machines of the future: quantum computers. Ignite is running from Sept. 25\u201329 in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>Like many other of the world\u2019s largest tech companies, Microsoft has been working to develop quantum computers that could handle massively complex problems in minutes or seconds. Unlike today\u2019s conventional devices that use the digital bits \u201c0\u201d and \u201c1,\u201d quantum computers use qubits that can act as 0s, 1s or both simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said its new quantum computing language, which has yet to be named, is \u201cdeeply integrated\u201d into its Visual Basic development environment and does many of the things other standard programming languages do. However, it is specifically designed to allow programmers to create apps that will eventually run on true quantum computers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio-today.com\/article\/index.php?story_id=123003YLY6TO\">http:\/\/www.cio-today.com\/article\/index.php?story_id=123003YLY6TO<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At its Ignite developer conference yesterday, Microsoft announced that it has developed a new programming language designed to not only run on current computers but on the most advanced machines of the future: quantum computers. Ignite is running from Sept. 25\u201329 in Orlando. Like many other of the world\u2019s largest tech companies, Microsoft has been [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/355"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}