plaidman

In your case it is probably not necessary if setting up the tether is easier than plugging your phone into the USB.

However most cars don't have android running their head unit. Android auto is helpful for those people.

I prefer Go because it has a nice typing system, has nice builtin tooling, and I've never heard of a language called Chess.

Art Alive for the Genesis fits the bill.

I see you took the best parts of both.