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?

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The real world where C is by far the most popular programming language? Or did you have some other one in mind?

Even if C is too ``low-level'' for you, there are countless better options than Java. Perl would seem to be culturally most compatible with Apache.