Some way to try it out Oscar without installing Oscar

[thofma]

Just so that we don't lost track of it. It would be cool to have a way to try out Oscar without installing Oscar. The canonical candidate would be to have a way to spin up an instance of a jupyter notebook.

• If the user has a google account, then google colab is an option. See for example https://colab.research.google.com/github/cs231n/cs231n.github.io/blob/master/python-colab.ipynb
• @benlorenz mentioned https://github.com/github/codespaces-jupyter (but I don't know how this looks in action).
• @aaruni96 will check whether there is something provided by mardi.
• something something binder

[benlorenz]

With github codespaces, and a github account, you can fire up vscode in the browser with the Oscar.jl repo and a terminal where you can use Oscar (from the Code button on the Oscar repo). This currently seems to use julia 1.8.4, I think we should update the .devcontainer/devcontainer.json.

It takes quite a while to ]up and precompile Oscar, maybe we can install a precompiled Oscar via maps? Also Oscar fails to load with the recog error due to missing software. After manually installing build-essential I was finally able to start Oscar in the terminal:

This does work (without installing oscar locally) but is not really quick and nor easy to use I would say.

There is also a open in jupyterlab button for the codespace but that doesn't seem to work since jupyter is probably not installed in the container.