The nominal purpose of the Raspberry Pi is education. The Raspberry Pi Foundation (RPF) sells Pi's commercially and they fold the profits back into their educat

The nominal purpose of the Raspberry Pi is education. The Raspberry Pi Foundation (RPF) sells Pi's commercially and they fold the profits back into their education program. They present Python as a good language to use on the Pi (for their educational uses), just as they recommend using Raspbian (their Debian variant) as the OS, but neither of those are required. They certainly don't discourage people from running other languages on them. Having said that, a Raspberry Pi running Python under Raspbian is a great little machine for special purpose tasks. I have half a dozen at home, with 15k lines of Python running in my living room (weather station, home automation, etc.).