I'm not a Go user, but is the important idea here that it can be run from a scriptingish environment like Jupyter or something?

It's significant syntactic sugar that brings it closer to Python, but no notebook support from what I can see.

Do any notebooks support a compiled language?

There is support for many languages Haskell :: https://github.com/gibiansky/IHaskell Rust :: https://github.com/google/evcxr

https://github.com/jupyter/jupyter/wiki/Jupyter-kernels will give you a more detailed list