Technical requirements
In order to work with Polyglot Notebooks, you will need to first install Visual Studio Code (VS Code) and the version of .NET that Polyglot Notebooks currently requires.
VS Code is freely available at https://Code.VisualStudio.com for Windows 10 and above, macOS 10.15 and above, and various distributions of Linux, including Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora, and SUSE.
Polyglot Notebooks requires a specific version of .NET in order to operate. At the point of this book’s release, that was .NET 8, but the Polyglot Notebooks team periodically updates to new versions of .NET as new major versions are released.
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/visual-studio-sdks VS Code and Polyglot Notebooks can also be run in your browser via GitHub Codespaces. We’ll explore this more in Chapter 15, Adopting and Deploying Polyglot Notebooks. In fact, you can always check the required .NET version by looking at the devcontainer.json
file in the .devcontainer...