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If you're referring to full-blown IntelliJ, Elcipse, VS, etc, the answer is no afaik. But if syntax highlighting, code completion and lightweight refactoring (within and across files) counts, then Caret or Zed might be worth a look. These are native Chrome apps, and don't require web access/connectivity. (I wrote most of the Chromebook piece in the OP and all my Go code using Caret, and am happy with it). I did some toy stress testing by opening up a few copies of War & Peace (1.5M+ line) text files in Caret. It took a couple of seconds to load, but search & replace and rapid scrolling/navigating worked well. Trying the same thing in vim either in Termux natively or via local ssh didn't hiccup at all. As mentioned in other threads, it's a side effect of design decisions, and naive assumptions about in-memory files. Kids today...

that is not correct.

(author here) I think this was misunderstood. I don't mean the _entire_ Chromebook or OS was unstable -- just the opposite actually. I was referring to having to restart Termux twice in two weeks. Two weeks of constant wake/sleep cycles on and off battery, and plugging/unplugging from an external monitor.

In one case it was a hard kill and I lost one ssh window that had been open for a week. In the other, the Termux gui came up and I never dropped my session (the ssh process never died). I'm not yet familiar enough with the Termux internals to understand that. As far as the Chrome OS stability, it's been one of the most stable machines I own, and I say that as a long-time MBP & Librem owner. 99% of the reboots were intentional as I reinstalled the whole build from Powerwash to Erlang hello world, to make sure I got the details right for the post (and to help troubleshoot some minor install roadbumps a couple of my reviewers experienced).

On the presentations, I joined multiple Hangouts & BlueJeans (WebRTC) video client calls with zero trouble. Signal and Wire voice worked like a champ too.

So while I certainly understand some of the comments here, for _my_ use case — a reliable $160 multi-week travel/burner dev notebook with strong security, I'm more than satisfied. And of course it's not in the same league as my $2K++ MBP. I would never try to run a big JDK app, but for offline Go and Python work, it fits my bill.