Whilst any improvement in the toolchain for Android is more than welcome, the claims that Ark will be open source doesn't alleviate the concerns about who are releasing it.<p>From the recent driver [1] that might have been a backdoor, to the tailbacks of their CVE history [0].<p>A compiler would allow them to introduce classes of vulnerabilities, in ways that might not be obvious, or easy, to detect.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/5979/Huawei.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cvedetails.com/vendor/5979/Huawei.html</a><p>[1] <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/how-microsoft-found-a-huawei-driver-that-opened-systems-up-to-attack/" rel="nofollow">https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/03/how-microsoft-found-...</a>