Compiling C# without Visual Studio

I'm new to C# and I understood that if i want to compile code without Visual Studio i need to use Roslyn, but on github it marks the latest release as .NET 6.0. Is there no way to compile C# code with .NET 8.0 as it is the latest LTS release? Visual Studio is very heavy, especially since i don't intend to use C# for big projects and my system isn't too performant.