That's like asking why a motorbike isn't a car - they have the same goal: get from A to B but quite different considerations. Most webscale products aren't wri

That's like asking why a motorbike isn't a car - they have the same goal: get from A to B but quite different considerations. Most webscale products aren't written in performant languages and are, instead, optimized around fast feature generation and being easy (cheap) to hire for. There's a reason laggy Electron apps are the norm $$.