The majority of programmers are not freelancers/consultants/cross-team-employees, they're for the most part "stuck" on just 1 team except for switching jobs. A

The majority of programmers are not freelancers/consultants/cross-team-employees, they're for the most part "stuck" on just 1 team except for switching jobs. And so sure, while a new project gets started somewhere in the org more frequently than "once-per-year", for most programmers it's not their team. And so their answer is "no". And so that "42%" doesn't seem high to me. If the question had been "did a freelancer/consultant/cross-team-employee involved with your team evaluate Go against another language for a project as part of their involvement with a team other than your own?" then the answer would probably be "yes" for most programmers (well, more likely "not sure, but probably yes"). If the question had been asked only to freelancers/consultants/cross-team-employees, then "42%" would seem high.