That's just one of the ways to think about it. Java, .NET (I felt like adding these two to expand on the comparison), Python and JS are all languages with a relatively high level of abstraction and large and useful ecosystems surrounding them. They're pretty popular for all sorts of application development, but all suffer from certain problems:

  - Java has lots of brittle reflection in some libraries and JDK can be finicky, especially with GC tuning
  - .NET needs a runtime, historically there's Mono, now there was .NET Core and now there will be just .NET, though in some cases there's also IL2CPP and so on
  - Python not only generally runs slow, but also has problematic package management, especially with vent
  - JS (Node in particular) has similar package management woes as well as really fast package deprecation

Go at least partially solves some of those problems, by being compiled, having decent performance, somewhat rich ecosystem and passable package management, all while the language remains usable.

Lots of applications and some tools will get written in Go because of this, because it's pretty reasonable to use in most cases.

In comparison, C, C++, Zig and Rust would all be better suited for systems level programming or embedded development - they typically let you write more performant and less memory hungry code, at the expense of foot guns and slower development.