HUGR Guides

This is a collection of informal, conceptual guides to HUGR aimed at those who wish to work directly with this structure and understand the motivations behind it. For a more formal overview see the specification as well as the Python and Rust APIs.

• What is HUGR?
  • In-memory representations
  • Serialized representations
    • Serialization in practice
• A beginner’s guide to building HUGR graphs in Python
  • Translating a basic circuit into HUGR
    • Creating a dataflow graph
    • Adding quantum gates
    • Making sure your HUGR is valid
  • Adding control flow around dynamic measurements
    • Conditionals
    • Loops
  • Generalizing through functions and polymorphism
    • Functions
    • Polymorphism