

Graphene OS is superior IMO. Android is open source already and Graphene fully removes Google.
I don’t see any advantage of trying to build everything from scratch again, which would mean giving up the enormous app ecosystem and existing work.
It’s way easier and more practical to just hard fork Android.














There’s almost zero reason to choose C for any greenfield project. C / C++ have been plagued with extremely serious problems throughout history because they are not memory safe. The world needs to move on from memory unsafe languages whenever it can.
Choosing C for something like this would be idiotic.