Qlafoutea \kla.fu.ti\
- (clafoutis) a crustless pie prepared from pourable batter and black cherries
- (Quantum Language of Formulas, User-facing Translation and Extension Architecture) a highly-experimental language designed to let developers and scientists write quantum algorithms and test them on existing and future quantum hardware without first having to study for a PhD in quantum mechanics.
Qlafoutea was born from the observation that most (if not all) of the tools currently available to develop quantum algorithms assume:
- That the user of these tools has achieved PhD-level in quantum mechanics (in addition to their own field).
- That the user of these tools can easily navigate (and generally, cares about) the distinction hardware currently available for usage, hardware still in development, hardware that only exists on paper, the various kinds of emulators, and general quantum hype.
- That the user of these tools is interested in building algorithms from scratch rather than interested in the result or the performance.