I mean scientific computing is what the language was designed for, use it if that's what you need.

Just don't expect to be using those shiny numbers for anything but scientific computing (and most specifically when involving large matrices). Their namespacing and modularity is terrible, writing a complex gui, non-trivial web server, 3d renderer, or any sort of real time system is right out. And they seem dead set against changing that (did I mention they ban people for making too much noise about it). But if you want to simulate something over a cluster it's a great choice.

I should probably note that I have a poor opinion of their community from my observations (they are hilariously salty), I may be a bit biased.