[oversocialized]

Seems too many devs use go for something it is not meant for. Tried doing math calculations in go - not a good a idea. But for backend stuff like rest api, web servers, networking, sysadmin and devops tasks, it shines.

[Cthulhu_]

I mean, a lot of developers have or look for a golden hammer, coerce their favorite language in doing a task. And since every programming language is turing complete, it CAN work, but whether it's the most elegant is not guaranteed.

I mean for math, similarly, Java and co wouldn't work very well either.

[astrange]

Java is solidly mediocre at math, like everything else, but it does work. At least if by math you mean numeric/arithmetical programming, not an algebra system. I think I'd prefer Julia though.