Q# - Programming language

Q# is a programming language created in 2017.

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768Repos

Tags: programming language
There are at least 768 Q# repos on GitHub
Early development of Q# happened in Microsoft
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 4 users using Q# in 4 repos on GitHub
Monaco package for syntax highlighting Q#

Example from Riju:

namespace main {

    open Microsoft.Quantum.Canon;
    open Microsoft.Quantum.Intrinsic;

    @EntryPoint()
    operation Main() : Unit {
        Message("Hello, world!");
    }
}

Example from hello-world:

namespace Quantum.HelloWorld {
    open Microsoft.Quantum.Canon;
    open Microsoft.Quantum.Intrinsic;


    operation HelloWorld() : Unit {
        Message("Hello World");
    }
}

Q# Keywords

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Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Conditionals	✓
Functions	✓
While Loops	✓
Comments	✓	// A comment
Line Comments	✓	// A comment	//
Strings	✓		"