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Dropping "C" overnight and thus making all existing Linux software incompatible is completely out of the question.

Android was never really Linux though.

This is officially too much quibbling, even if we settled philosophical questions like "Is Android Linux?" Then "If not, would dropping C make RISC nonviable", there isn't actually an Android version that'll do RISC anywhere near on the horizon. Support _reversed_ for it, got pulled 5 months ago

>Support _reversed_ for it, got pulled 5 months ago

Cursory research will yield that this was a technicality with no weight in Google's strong commitment to RISC-V Android support.

If you trust PR (I don't, and I worked on Android for 7 years until a year ago) - this is a nitpick 5 levels down -- regardless of how you weigh it, there is no Android RISC-V

Dropping the compressed instructions is also a performance / power issue. That matters to mobile.

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