It works really well.

FWIW, millions of lines of Go are used in production at Google, and it’s deployed onto the edge of Cloudflare, Netflix, Google, and other big companies.

I think that depends on what you want to do. Go is more of a backend/systems language. It’s also what most of Docker is written in. If you’re thinking to write that kind of code, I’ve really liked Go for that, and would say 9. Otherwise, less.

But also from a professional standpoint would being more converse in it if not developing directly would be beneficial. I think I’m hearing yes.

Yes, I think so.

Go is still in the early stages of it’s growth. It’s only going to get more popular IMO. The ability to build single binary for any platform makes it really attractive for building all sorts of things, from simple utils, to large applications.