As an example of how we might consider using these: We work on a lot of short-lived one-off experimental projects, and we currently use B&R industrial controll

As an example of how we might consider using these: We work on a lot of short-lived one-off experimental projects, and we currently use B&R industrial controllers for more or less everything. However, these use a clunky Windows-only development environment and can only be programmed in C/C++. For some projects - e.g. putting a data logger in a low voltage electrical cabinet, which interfaces to some gear using serial/modbus/CAN and analog/digital I/O and uploads the results to the cloud - this could potentially be quite useful. We don't often work on safety-critical systems, or require 5-nines uptime. The only thing is that this system isn't that cheap compared to B&R gear, although not having to pay a subscription for the dev environment helps.