In a sense, writing applications for quantum computing is very much a case of going back to the future. Much like the mainframe programmer of the 1970s, Today’s quantum computing programmer has to debug their code before it runs on the iron, because the quantum runtime itself is so very expensive, and still is quite limited in capability.
In fact, by its very nature of the technology, quantum computing programs can not be debugged, at least not while they are running.
Test in production? Not a chance.
“Running on quantum hardware is very…
