They tend to be popular with the "rewrite it in rust/go" crowd as far as I can tell. Or in other words, you are no longer part of the cool kids.

I've seen an online radio player in Go which was unusabiily slow on my Atom n270 due to the badly coded ANSI audio visualization FX' using floating math. Meanwhile a with Cava or another visualizer and mpd+mpc I could do the same using 200x less resources.