Comment by hereonout2

I don't know if go counts as "systems programming" like the other commenter mentions.

But I have been recently using it for some tooling and small servers on personal projects where I'd have used python before.

Frankly it's been a joy and I wish I'd started earlier. The concurrency primitives are great, and the static binaries make deployment easy (raspberry pi in this case).

Struggle to use anything other than python professionally, the need to settle on a common denominator trumps pretty much everything else.