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yaw: a quantum language built around operators

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Yaw is a quantum programming language that describes what operators do rather than directly specifying quantum states.

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Yaw frames quantum programs as algebra over operators, with examples covering Grover search, stabilizer-style error correction, and a photonic GKP state. The supplied workflow clones a repository, installs Python requirements, launches a REPL, or compiles a .yaw file into Python. The site also presents SIQP II, a living textbook intended to develop the language from first principles. Continuous-variable support and hardware compilation are explicitly described as unfinished areas.

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