I'm not a Go dev, but I'm thinking of learning Go, have written a few tiny applications with it.
From what I gather:
It is strongly typed and compiled, which should make it faster and cleaner than the likes of ruby and python
It uses packages, always statically compiled and garbage collected, which should make it simpler than the likes of C++
Still has a lot of weirdness though, like error handling or lack of inheritance
It was created as a general purpose language but I think it's mostly used in webdev for some reason