I doubt Go has any sizable effect on the community of programming language developers. Probably Pascal has more impact on this.
Every single new post-Go language, like Rust & Zig, ships with an opinionated autoformatter and a single go-to command to manage builds, packaging, etc.
And how many new languages do you see include inheritance and exceptions?
Older languages have started adapting what they can too:
- Python with `uv` and `black`
- Java with goroutine-like fibers and modern configuration-free gcs and the go-gc-like low pause times zgc
- Many languages now ship a production-ready http server, just like Go
From type theory exceptions are effects, and result types are a form of effects.
Auto formatting has been a thing in IDEs for a decade, and doing pre-commit hooks on CVS with indent was a thing in the 1990's.
Java and .NET had http servers.
Co-routines trace back to languages like Solo Pascal.
Configuration free GC not really that great, given the rewrites into Rust.
Anyway, Oberon, Modula-3, Eiffel, .NET,....
Pauseless GC goes back to real time Java from PTC, Aonix, Aicas, and companies like Azul with their custom hardware.