>how on earth am I going to convince my corpo overlords that this language belongs anywhere near a production system?

Well, I don't see any difference with any other language you could use, from SQL, to C ,CSS or JSON.

The fact is that the higher your corpo overlord, the less is he going to understand your scrawl.

Instead of them understanding your language, it is you who need to speak theirs. You will need to understand MBA talk in order to communicate in simple terms(elevator pitch) why you using this weird language is important for the company.

Then they will leave you alone if what you promised is true, or just fire you if it is not.