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Command-line programs.

Short-lived processes are an issue, because while startup time can be ok, code won't perform well until it's hot enough to be JITed.

You can set the JIT threshold to 0, assuming the impact would still be worthwhile.

The alternative is a commercial JDK, almost all of them do support AOT compilation.

Long running processes without a lot of events can also deal with "startup issues", in that they won't trigger JIT.

You can set the JIT threshold to 0, then it will JIT the full bytecode on startup, but it might perform worse.

Fast compilation and minimal startup time in Go allows for very fast development feedback similar to what one gets with interpreted languages.