> If I were to guess this feature has been added as a freetime project amongst Google employees. I believe the impetus was enabling Android app development on

> If I were to guess this feature has been added as a freetime project amongst Google employees. I believe the impetus was enabling Android app development on Chrome OS. Google first said they were working on that a long time ago. I guess in the process of doing so they figured they might as well expand the functionality to cover all Linux apps, not just Android Studio. As such, I expect support will be stable. Chrome OS in general has had very solid support, too.