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> What I struggle to understand is: If that functionality is considered useful or even impeding the development process for those developing in Go, why has nobody forked the language to add them?

The group of people who are able to fork, change and maintain their own Go variant are usually not the people who would ever consider using Go in the first place.

Have a look how long it took PHP to get an AST (instead of the broken mess of reading&executing). Those who are able aren't those who would ever deal with PHP.