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Go isn’t a scripting language, and it isn’t a system language either, despite what Wikipedia currently says. To be a system language, a language should support assembly language and shouldn’t require an embedded garbage collector. And if you’re going to make a compiled language anyway, why not make it capable of system work? Go is a platypus that’s popular with devops for some reason—probably Google’s clout in the industry.
The one thing Go does have going for is performance. It compiles and runs pretty fast. It isn't as fast as C but it is very close.
And it has a pretty excellent stdlib.