The Pi is an awkward inbetweener - it's too power-hungry to substitute for a microcontroller, but too basic to replace an x86 computer in most applications. To

The Pi is an awkward inbetweener - it's too power-hungry to substitute for a microcontroller, but too basic to replace an x86 computer in most applications. To be fair, the Micro:Bit exists because of the lessons learned from the failure of the Raspberry Pi in education. In a strange sense, it's the 2.0 version of what the Pi was supposed to be; the Pi lives on because of the hobbyist community, but it failed fairly comprehensively at its intended purpose.