If you're willing to put your Chromebook in dev-mode, it doesn't necessairily have to be a remote IDE. You could also use a Linux distro from within a chroot [1

If you're willing to put your Chromebook in dev-mode, it doesn't necessairily have to be a remote IDE. You could also use a Linux distro from within a chroot [1][2]. [1] https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton [2] https://github.com/drinkcat/chroagh https://github.com/drinkcat/chroagh