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A link within that article mentioned Android Studio possibly running on it. Who cares? Are there any developers who live 100% in an IDE? I use Sublime Text in addition to a full blown IDE because sometimes there's stuff that you know will be tedious in an IDE and simpler with your go-to editor.

Until you can run Sublime Text, and bash (with perl, python, sed, awk, etc, or any other arbitrary piece of software I don't see developers moving to this device.

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Lots of iOS and Mac developers for better or worse live in Xcode, same with C# developers and Visual Studio. So even if it just runs Android Studio there could be a developer market for it.

Can confirm that if you're doing C#, you're probably never leaving Visual Studio. Nothing can touch the VS autocomplete, and the text editing features are at least pretty good.

Yes, since Turbo Pascal 6.0 with Turbo Vision based IDE for MS-DOS, with the exception when I started working on UNIX systems, where the IDE concept was kind of foreign.

There I tried to do my best with XEmacs, DDD (or similar) and some GUI builder.

Thankfully eventually IDEs started to be a thing on GNU/Linux as well, starting with KDevelop and Anjunta.

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