The bedrock abstraction (usable languages etc) is higher than the hardware. The hardware we don't care about. It's disposable. In fact, you can drag pretty much anything you can do from the Pi onto another platform and carry on.
If the languages chosen were pretty tied to the hardware, then I'd worry i.e. if people were using it to learn ARM assembly or were developing early UNIX versions on PDP11s. But they're not.
It's suitable for education only because it's very cheap, it's functional and the bedrock abstraction is higher than the hardware.
The bedrock abstraction (usable languages etc) is higher than the hardware. The hardware we don't care about. It's disposable. In fact, you can drag pretty much anything you can do from the Pi onto another platform and carry on.
If the languages chosen were pretty tied to the hardware, then I'd worry i.e. if people were using it to learn ARM assembly or were developing early UNIX versions on PDP11s. But they're not.
It's suitable for education only because it's very cheap, it's functional and the bedrock abstraction is higher than the hardware.