Horizon Quantum has announced Beryllium, a hardware-agnostic, high-level language for programming quantum computers.

Beryllium is an object-oriented language, which, the company says, lets developers start with simple “quantum building blocks and progressively create richer, higher-level structures by reusing and extending what they have already defined.” This layered-abstraction approach lets developers “think in terms of information structure rather than qubits and low-level processing details.”

Beryllium joins the following two languages, which are already available through Horizon’s Triple Alpha integrated development environment:

• Helium – BASIC-like language that supports concurrent classical/quantum workflows
• Hydrogen – Portable, assembly-like language that allows for general control flow

“We believe Beryllium is an important milestone, as we introduce the abstraction needed to bridge the gap between classical and quantum programming," said Joe Fitzsimons, founder and CEO of Horizon Quantum.
Learn more at Horizon Quantum.