This combined with the main article shows the exact reason why Raspberry Pi is as popular as it is. When I'm starting a new project I can either worry about Arduino or ESP32 or other microcontrollers or various NUCs or getting a board fabricated from scratch...or I can grab a RPi from the drawer and know that it will just work, regardless of whether I need to toggle some RGB lights, browse the web, or run a Kubernetes cluster.
There is nothing else out there that hits the sweet spot in between price, power consumption, processing speed, extensibility, software compatibility, out-of-box experience and lots more.
There is nothing else out there that hits the sweet spot in between price, power consumption, processing speed, extensibility, software compatibility, out-of-box experience and lots more.