> I have no clue why people here are comparing a Raspberry Pi with an ESP32 The usual HN discussion of RPi goes something like this: "The RPi 5 has gotten too

> I have no clue why people here are comparing a Raspberry Pi with an ESP32 The usual HN discussion of RPi goes something like this: "The RPi 5 has gotten too expensive, these days intel small-form-factor PCs (possible second hand) are a better choice, giving better performance and no messing around with microsd cards" "I need GPIOs, sub-3-watt power consumption, and I don't need the performance of the most expensive RPi model" "If you need GPIOs and low power, why not ESP32?"