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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That's not the point I'm arguing for. Someone in this thread pointed out that developing software in Java is faster than in C, and another /prog/rider presented the "Hello world" as a counterexample. My point was that it was silly.

Also,
(...) there are countless better options than Java. Perl (...)
IHBT