CoCalc+: very easy way to run CoCalc on your laptop or a remote server

I made a first ever early alpha release of Cocalc+! It's here: https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc/releases/tag/0.2.5

What is this? It's a locally installable version of CoCalc that does NOT require Docker, and lets you fully use whatever Jupyter kernels, latex, etc. you have on your own laptop directly. It's a single self-contained binary, and is very lightweight.

Try it, with the caveats of course that it's probably horribly broken.

There is an Apple Silicon mac binary that is properly signed.

There's a Linux binary for x86_64 as well.

Most importantly, this is the first version of CocalcPlus ever that actually has AI support, which was a significant amount of work to add. To configure AI, click on the settings icon in the UPPER RIGHT, then click on "AI" and paste in a key and click save. You might need to refresh your browser, but you'll get full AI integration for the provides you configure.

You can also run this on a remote server and thus use the CoCalc UI, TimeTravel, Jupyter notebooks, whiteboards, latex editor, terminals, etc., and thus more easily use that remote server.

The design is very lightweight in that it is single user and there is only one project -- your computer. There is also no separate database.

This does not currently support integration with cocalc.com, but that is of course planned soon as an option. The model is that CoCalc+ will be free, but some integrations with our cloud services will require a subscription.