A source within Google has told Android Authority that Google plans to basically turn Chrome OS into Android.
  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Does that mean we’ll start seeing desktop apps like IDEs running in Android? How are you going to develop python on android? A linux container / VM? That’s going to be so wasteful. But I am curious.

    It won’t be good for flashing though. Probably once support ends, it’ll be a slow brick upon which one can’t install linux.

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    • aluminium@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      You have been able to do this on Android for a while using Termux, Proot Distro and VSCode Server. I even did it once to host two Angular Frontends on Android to free up Memory form my main latop running the backend.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Does that mean we’ll start seeing desktop apps like IDEs running in Android? How are you going to develop python on android? A linux container / VM?

      Non-web applications on ChromeOS already run in containers. Developer mode (or however ChromeOS calls it) is just installing Debian in an LXC container.

      That’s going to be so wasteful.

      Have you ever tried browsing the web using Chrome? THAT’S wasteful on resources. A command line-only container for Python development is nothing by comparison.