corbett/QuantumComputing

This project is a historical artifact from the early days of cloud-accessible quantum computing (circa 2014). While it holds 624 stars, its velocity is zero and its utility has been entirely superseded by official frameworks like IBM's Qiskit, Google's Cirq, and Xanadu's PennyLane. The 'limited set of gates' and 5-qubit constraint were reflections of the hardware limits of a decade ago, which are no longer relevant for modern simulators that can handle 30+ qubits on consumer hardware. Its defensibility is near zero as it lacks the performance optimizations (state-vector or tensor network) found in modern engines like Qiskit Aer or NVIDIA cuQuantum. Frontier labs and major cloud providers (AWS Braket, Azure Quantum) have already commoditized this space with high-performance, well-documented, and actively maintained alternatives. It serves as a pedagogical reference for how early simulators were built but carries no competitive value in the current market.