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gofmt is a huge win for Go. Bye bye bikeshedding. I'd love to see that for Rust too.

I haven’t tried Go yet, but gofmt seems like something that every new language should strongly consider.

FWIW, C++ already has it with clang-format

clang-format is amazing. I think it can format more languages than just C++ too. For example js, I think?

Yes; there are also efforts for Java, AFAIK

Splendid!

There has been talk of it, and one of the core team members had a prototype. It's most definitely something to look at this year.