Clojure in my opinion is the most beautiful and powerful language I have ever seen.
It has the full power of java ecosystem, amazing and simple concurrency, extremely simple syntax and semantics.
You literally start ascending to other dimensions after a while of writing clojure. It's like you are talking to your software.
Welp there's no normal lisp.
Clojure has more expressive power and is more functional than common lisp, it's also a hosted language so you have clojure which is on the jvm (you get access to all the libraries and adoption of jvm) you have clojurescript that runs on node (compiles to js) you have babashka that is run on graalVM for scripts, jank that is on the LLVM and etc.
I use custom ROM and fdroid myself.
It's still a google product. Specially if you have ever developed for android you know you just have to play Google's games. The same way if you use Java you have to play Oracle's games. Or if you want to be an aws engineer (or whatever they are called) you have to... You get the gist.
Google has deeo control over tge android ecosystem and the only reason it's somewhat open source currently is the GPL licensing of the linux kernel.
And they are limiting it day by day, while it's getting harder to install custom roms on newer phones.
The smartphone industry is absolutely garbage. Android and ios aren't very different.
and btw, open source doesn't mean FOSS. It just means they couldn't find a legal way to make it fully proprietary.
You're developing for a google platform. Doent really matter if the IDE is backed by google.
and you have a LOT more to do with google if you are developing for android. The platform is locked in to google. Get used to it.
Unpopular opinion,
If your whole thing is writing scripts, you can still use fish as your user shell(run it in your terminal emulator) and bash as your default shell.
bash is ok for small scripts. No need for anything fancy. For more complex scripts, just write them in something good like Lua or babashka(clojure)
Mattermost is indeed, a dick. They try to leech off of contributors like many of corporate focused open source products do.