[Cthulhu_]

Not sure why you'd be shocked, it's a solid language for enterprise services like Apple offers, and their other languages - C/C++, Objective-C, Swift - aren't very kind for web services.

Great use case for Go though, especially its concurrency features for web crawlers. I reckon Scala could work too, although it's a lot more complicated / clever.

[72deluxe]

Out of curiosity, why would C or C++ not be good for web services?

[mdaniel]

I would guess because the input sanitizing requirement is harder for the web; having a stackoverflow when running locally requires the attacker to execute locally -- having a use-after-free from port 80 would be a much wider audience

[jd20]

Some Apple services were written in C/C++. One downside is it's very hard to source engineers across the company who can then work on that code, or for those engineers to go work on other teams.