I’ve written go code for large corporates in Australia who absolutely did not have a tech or software focus. One was a notoriously bureaucratic company which used to be a government owned enterprise. For the niches it fills well, it’s become almost ubiquitous.

With regard to this:

> But most enterprises that have a non-software focus generally prefer languages that have been around for a while and are known by lots of people.

I know developers who work for large blue chip financial sector and other traditional sectors. They’re on the same React/Vue/Webpack/whatever treadmill as all the frontend devs devs working at web dev agencies. And they’re often compiling it down from TypeScript, which has not been around for a very long while at all and is not known by lots of people (relative to the size of the JS community.

Swinging a bit of Go for a service in an environment like that isn’t really that hard.