If you want to code using Visual Studio Code but you're using a Chromebook, it's not a problem at all.

Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company, in partnership with Microsoft has made it possible to install Visual Studio Code on any Linux distribution which supports snap.

Using the new Visual Studio Code 1.33 (March 2019 version) is a snap -- of the Linux variety that lets the popular open source code editor be distributed as a snap package.

Visual Studio now supports debugging Linux apps; Code editor now open source Microsoft doubles down on cross-platform software development.