For those saying "people need to stop buying cars that have locked subscription features" -- soon it may be very hard to do so. The industry has been allowed to consolidate so much, and our antitrust enforcement so lax, that the market is tightening in favor of a few players.
Go it's ideal to replace old C/C++ based utilitarian software such as mail clients, music players and so on.
For gaming and high performance needing tools such as the ffmpeg codecs and qemu, C/C++ have more sense there.