But there's a lot of incidental stuff that needs to be done, most of which I don't want to spend cycles on thinking hard about, and Go does a good job there, in

But there's a lot of incidental stuff that needs to be done, most of which I don't want to spend cycles on thinking hard about, and Go does a good job there, in that narrow niche where I want something that runs on one machine but find python too slow. Definitely! I have continued to use Go for small utility every now and then as well. The standard library is extremely well-suited for that kind of work. (Now using Rust more in that role as well, but mostly to get continued practice ;).)