It depends on what X,Y and Z are.

What you may like about go if you come from:

python/ruby: go is faster and allows you to write concurrent code php/js: go is faster, concurrent, and its designers were competent c/c++: go is simpler and prevents some common mistakes, compiles faster java: go is faster and simpler. garbage collection is less of a problem rust: go is simpler, compiles faster, io/task switching might be faster functional languages: go is simpler, for some its faster/more predictable

What you may not like if you are coming from:

python/ruby: go is verbose, you'll need much more code to express the same thing. Many libraries/frameworks are missing. more advanced concepts will be hard/impossible to express in elegant way. Long list of language features is missing. php/js: can't think of anything, everything is better c/c++: no access to c/c++ libraries, many language features missing. You cannot write operating system in go. It has GC java: no access to java libraries, lot of missing language and platform features, verbosity rust: lot of missing language features, verbosity, sloppy attitude to code correctness and safety, GC, slower generated code functional languages: Any functional language features are missing

So you may come for speed or simplicity (meaning low-level primitiveness, not high-level elegance) and no-nonsense design, otherwise its just meh.

Building cli tools... you can build cross platform as well. Major benefit here is, you just need to distribute single binary, no dependency hell.

I am writing a queue system for vfx.