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There are a few good reasons, but more importantly, why does it matter?

Can't speak for others, but I find deploying the JVM alongside non-JVM software to create a full product pretty frustrating.

Apache isn't written in Java :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server

That's Apache httpd. Apache is a software organization.

All: this is a major project (with a long history: http://geode.incubator.apache.org/about) and a major release. It deserves a substantive thread, so please let's not get sidetracked by a language troll.