Does Pixelbook suitable for coding?

I got an Acer chromebook for my (old) parents. They LOVE it! I LOVE it! They really only need to surf the web. I don't have to clean out viruses and fix hanged windows updates any more. Chromebooks are a perfect product for many people.

Chromebook user here. I have couple of chromebooks and whenever I want to use a simple text editor I start up Crouton and switch to the Ubuntu OS when I want to do some dev work. For regular 4chan fix, I use Chromeos

I have the Pixelbook and I love it. I'm anxious for the Linux and even Windows 10 (dual-boot) support. I'm waiting for it to come out of the dev channel though. It's also a nice compliment with. Pixel 2 XL to unlock it.

Should probably mention that ChromeOS can download Linux applications like VSCODE, a premier text editor.

I have a Toshiba Chromebook II. I was enamored with it and chrome OS at first but not so much now. The chromebook hasn't been reliable. It spent 11 weeks at the Toshiba hospital and now that it's out of warranty the same problems are developing again. Chrome OS is mostly good but google treats it as a bastard child and is slow to make improvements and fix problems. They pushed out an update that caused my cold boot times to increase by 4x! Now I'm stuck with it. The trackpad is wayyyy too touch sensitive and despite many attempts I am unable to fix. My next laptop won't be a chromebook.

I think, for the price, I'd much rather have a MacBook Air as a laptop. If I want a secondary device that's thin and light, I'd rather have an iPad Pro. Both are going to last much longer and do a great job. But I think iPad not supporting a mouse/trackpad is a huge disadvantage, but as a secondary device it's all right lol The device looks nice, but I think Google is a software company and this hardware is probably sourced from Taiwan, Korea, or China. The Android OS is not as battery efficient and theres a chance of it slowing down over time, too.
 
I'd love to see a Samsung Dex tablet that just let's you stick your phone into a screen, keyboard, battery, ports, and speakers. If they have that, then that's like having one device for everything, and you can just get the top end phone with 8 GB of RAM and then forget about everything else. I think that'd be awesome. That new Windows tablet thing was just so pointless. It's expensive, underpowered, too small, and it tries to snuck Windows RT back in... Ewww... creepy Microsoft. Overall, I think the 2015 MacBook Pro fully specced put is still the best choice for laptops, given its price, performance, built quality, ports, and longevity.