My view of Go went from being annoyed to "they picked their tradeoffs carefully and consciously and then leaned into them hard to squeeze every ounce of upside out of them" and while it's still not really my preferred aesthetic I now have a lot of respect for the design as a design process.

Meanwhile, getting addicted to scheme many years ago is a lot of why I still mostly write perl, I need 'my' (i.e. expression/block level scoping and you actually have to declare your variables to scope them before use) and closures for the style of programming I like to do.

Rules out python, ruby, and pre-ES6 JS, though JS with 'let' and arrow functions is pretty survivable and will be even more so if the 'do' and 'match' proposals land.

(note: I know go has :=, and while I'm ambivalent about the syntax, the semantics are pretty much what I expect; the above was talking about scripting class languages though hence not mentioning it there)

Scheme (and by Scheme, I mean Racket, I guess) is nice, but it's not particularly elegant compared to eg Haskell.