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?

#include <stdio.h>
printf("Hello world!\n");

Now, typing this took me about 10 seconds. But think about all the boilerplate code you'd need to write the same thing in Java. You'd need at least twice as long just to type out public static void main(String[] args) and you don't even have any real code yet!