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by IshKebab 2399 days ago
https://www.wired.com/2009/11/google-announces-a-new-program...

> As a systems language, Go is intended to be used for developer applications like, for example, web servers.

Couldn't find a citation for CLI tools, but that should satisfy you (since people write web servers in Ruby and Node.js too).