ASF's appalling VM vassalage

Why are the Apache Software Foundation such Java loving faggots?
Why would you write high-performance scalable software in anything but C? Don't people realize their clusters could be half the size if they took the time to sit down and port the code to a real systems language?

It's valid, but unnecessarily clever. A minimal hello world program in C is a lot shorter than a minimal hello world program in Java even when you're being proper.

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
    puts("Hello world!");
    return 0;
}

versus

public class HelloWorld {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hellow world!");
    }
}