Why would big tech do this when customers bring it upon themselves by building Javascript slop?

Big tech isnt running their stack on js.

Maybe, but their cloud customers certainly are.

	▲	tatersolid 5 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		All the large cloud-hosted infra I’ve encountered in my career were written in JIT or AOT compiled languages (C#, Java, Golang, etc.) This is basically necessary at any sort of scale.
	▲	surajrmal 5 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Cloud usage is dominated by larger companies with much older codebases that predates modern js backend development.
	▲	worthless-trash 5 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		As long as the customer pays, why wouldn't they promote an option which makes them more profit?