[totalperspectiv]

It's worth using. I do science things and use Go. It doesn't require much more mental overhead to write than a scripting language (possibly less once you're into it), it's pretty fast without arcane knowledge, it's easy to maintain, binaries are easy to deploy, and it has a super fast startup time unlike Julia, if you care about that. Overall, I'd highly recommend it.

[LanceH]

I use it to push files around and possibly parse and move the data those files contain. But once it gets to strictly numerical things, the purpose built tools are the only real choice. Scientific libraries for Go are nearly non-existent, or just copies of fully formed libraries from somewhere else.