However I'll love to hear some persons' experiences who have used or currently use a Chromebook for development.
Currently I use- Sublime Text & iTerm2
I'm pretty happy with nitrous, I do kind of find the context switching a bit strange in that I can have browser tabs open and tabs in nitrous open - ctrl-tab obvious changes the browser tab, but my brain, when I'm editing code in a tabbed environment, still sometimes expects the code editor to switch tabs. Still, I have to say I ran an experiment on nitrous and if Vim is more your thing, you can actually run a shell inside the browser and fire up vim.
I enabled developer mode on my Chromebook and I SSH into another machine I have set up. From there I use tmux and vim.
Essentially, my workflow is as such:
1. SSH into the server
2. Attach to tmux session
3. Code
4. Detach from tmux session
5. Logout from the server
You can set up a machine at home to use or even rent a $5 VPS. You could even SSH into your current machine.
This setup works great. Only thing I miss is debugger.
You can store and edit code on Google Drive or connect it to a development server to run your code.