This document tracks where LIFT is published and referenced across the Rust,
AI, and quantum ecosystems, plus the channels still to pursue.
Channel URL Status
crates.io (13 crates) https://crates.io/crates/lift-core ✅ v0.4.4 docs.rs (13 crates) https://docs.rs/lift-core ✅ GitHub repo https://github.com/rustnew/Lift ✅ GitHub Releases https://github.com/rustnew/Lift/releases ✅ 7 releases GitHub Pages (docs book) https://rustnew.github.io/Lift/ ✅ GitHub Discussions https://github.com/rustnew/Lift/discussions ✅ crates.io Trusted Publishing 13 crates → rustnew/Lift workflow publish.yml ✅ configured
Publishing is now secure : all 13 crates use Trusted Publishing
(OIDC, no API token). Pushing a v* tag triggers
.github/workflows/publish.ymlCONTRIBUTING.md .
List PR Section
qosf/awesome-quantum-software #178 Quantum full-stack libraries + Quantum compilers (Rust) merrymercy/awesome-tensor-compilers #47 Open Source Projects rust-unofficial/awesome-rust #2689 Machine learning
List Section Status
invictvs-choi/awesome-quantum-compiler — Skipped — list is research-papers only, not open-source tools zwang4/awesome-machine-learning-in-compilers — Skipped — list is "ML applied to compilers", not "ML compilers"
Ready-to-post texts for each channel are in docs/ANNOUNCEMENTS.md .
Channel Status
This Week in Rust Text ready — submit via https://this-week-in-rust.org/ users.rust-lang.org (Announcements) Text ready Reddit r/rust Text ready Reddit r/QuantumComputing Text ready Reddit r/MachineLearning Text ready Hacker News (Show HN) Text ready Lobste.rs Reuse the HN/r/rust text Rust Discord / Zulip Reuse the announcement text
Channel When Notes
arXiv paper v1.0 (Q4 2026) Already in roadmap Papers With Code After arXiv Link the repo Quantum Open Source Foundation (QOSF) Any time Community + mentorship Unitary Fund Any time Grants for open-source quantum projects
The crate name lift is taken on crates.io (a DB migration tool, unrelated).
lift-ir is available if a standalone brand name is ever needed.
lib.rs indexes crates.io automatically; no manual submission needed.
Written 2026-08-05 (pause until ~2026-09). Keep this in sync with every
release so the messaging never overpromises. Rule of thumb : announce what
the code does today, not what the roadmap plans.
Area Status Audience
IR construction (modules, functions, blocks, ops, regions, values, types) Solid Compiler developers Dialects: 110 tensor ops, 48 quantum gates, 21 hybrid ops (full types/API) Real API consumers 13 optimisation passes (fusion, DCE, rewrites…) + pass framework Real Pass developers IR verifier Real Program validation Quantum analysis: circuit depth, estimated fidelity, depolarising noise Real but static Estimation only, no execution Export: ONNX / QASM / LLVM-IR text Partial Prototyping
Gap Impact
No real simulator — quantum_sim.rs is static analysis, not state-vector simulation Cannot run a circuit to get states/amplitudes Importers are ~55-line skeletons (ONNX / PyTorch FX / QASM), not full parsers Cannot load a real .onnx / .qasm file end-to-end No real LLVM lowering — backend emits IR text, not executable bytecode Cannot compile-and-run natively No tensor execution — numpy-like interpreter is planned (v0.5) Tensor ops do not compute yet
"Rust compiler framework: unified SSA IR for AI + quantum, 13 optimisation
passes, O0-O3 pipelines, LLVM/ONNX/QASM backends."
This is accurate today. It is a framework (build compilers with it), not yet
an end-to-end compiler you can feed a model/circuit into and run.