Qiskit
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
6recommend
1warn against
Nov 16, 2025first mention
Sep 6, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“you can do it yourself using Qiskit on IBM's publicly available devices”
physicist working on quantum deviceson “Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies Against Qua…”
“IBM's Qiskit (the de facto standard)”
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“The IBM Qiskit ecosystem, community, platform, etc. are active and welcoming”
“IBM's Qiskit platform may still have tooling, simulators, and visualizers that help you write a program”
Worked on the compiler stack at a quantum computing companyon “Ask HN: Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming”
“its a really great project!!”
Caveats and dissent
“(Qiskit/Cirq can't pass this test.)”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: Quantum Computation, Computers and Programming 3 mentions
- Qiskit open-source SDK for working with quantum computers 2 mentions
- IBM Quantum Nighthawk R2 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026) 1 mention
- Securing Elliptic Curve Cryptocurrencies Against Quantum Vulnerabilities [pdf] 1 mention
- Cuneicode – a language where 0.1 and 0.2 == 0.3 1 mention
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All comments 13
“quantum SDKs like Qiskit and Pennylane”
“quantum circuit models (PennyLane/Qiskit)”
“you can do it yourself using Qiskit on IBM's publicly available devices”
“(Qiskit/Cirq can't pass this test.)”
“IBM's Qiskit (the de facto standard)”
“The IBM Qiskit ecosystem, community, platform, etc. are active and welcoming”
“perhaps the most common would be through something like IBM's Qiskit”
“IBM's Qiskit platform may still have tooling, simulators, and visualizers that help you write a program”
“active open-source contributor (Zoose Quantum, IBM Qiskit ecosystem)”
“Next.js + Pyodide + Qiskit + OpenRouter”
“its a really great project!!”
“I recommend using Qiskit to explore famous thought experiments”
“Qiskit [IBM]”