[eru]

I used one in the wild, but I was working for Google at the time.

[alpaca9]

It would be hell being forced to use these things for your job. What departments were? Because I can't imagine a software developer using one.

[eru]

I wasn't forced to use anything. This was in the mid-2010s when the first ARM Chromebook came out; I bought one out of curiosity. But I learned about it at work.

Independent of that: some of the modern higher end Chromebooks can be quite nice, and you can (A) run general Linux on them, and (B) VS Code dev tunnel in the browser runs on them just as well as on any other laptop.

[alpaca9]

yeah i forgot about their linux capabilities they got. In my mind they didn't seem a lot different than simple android tablets with a keyboard but indeed if the hardware isn't bad it could be valid option now I think about it.

[esseph]

Vscode can run in a browser, your code is often in git, and it normally is going through CI/CD (being compiled/packaged/deployed elsewhere).

All you need for that is a dumb terminal.

[olyjohn]

Boy I hope VSCode runs better in the browser than all of Microsoft's other terrible web apps.

[esseph]

https://vscode.dev/