I have used Samsung ARM Chromebook with crouton for a while now.
I mainly use only two languages for my projects: Python and Scala.
Python works pretty well and performs pretty fast. Also ipython becomes really handy in operating system that has only web browser. No issues here.
But with Scala there are a few significant issues. Main issue is compilation speed. My small pet project (5-6 KLOC) takes 9 minutes to make full rebuild. 9 fucking minutes. This is clearly embarrassing. Another issue is about installing Scala and all that JRE-stuff, which doesn't work out of the box, so i have to tweak and setup it by myself.
So chromebook works pretty well as "on-the-go" laptop for some cases (reading, surfing web, writing a bits of code in scripting languages). I really do enjoy its battery life and simplicity of ChromeOS combined with power of fully-featured linux. But for me chromebook in not the best choice and i have to use mostly my old heavy laptop for development.
I mainly use only two languages for my projects: Python and Scala.
Python works pretty well and performs pretty fast. Also ipython becomes really handy in operating system that has only web browser. No issues here.
But with Scala there are a few significant issues. Main issue is compilation speed. My small pet project (5-6 KLOC) takes 9 minutes to make full rebuild. 9 fucking minutes. This is clearly embarrassing. Another issue is about installing Scala and all that JRE-stuff, which doesn't work out of the box, so i have to tweak and setup it by myself.
So chromebook works pretty well as "on-the-go" laptop for some cases (reading, surfing web, writing a bits of code in scripting languages). I really do enjoy its battery life and simplicity of ChromeOS combined with power of fully-featured linux. But for me chromebook in not the best choice and i have to use mostly my old heavy laptop for development.
P.S. Also i really miss my Emacs in ChromeOS.