This guys made a pascal-like language:

http://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/oxygene/

Exist various dialects of pascal (Modula, Oberon, etc) so is not something so far in the wind.

But if you lose too much of the syntax you remove part of the charm.

Palatable how? Pascal's syntax is not especially different from that of most scripting languages

Every time I look at the syntax, it feels really verbose. IIRC some dialects require all caps or initial caps on keywords; at any rate that's how most examples are shown, and it's rather off-putting. Superficial, I know, but I'm probably not the only one.

I don't know about other implementations but FreePascal is completely case insensitive. Identifiers are actually treated the same if the only difference is case. I don't particularly like this, but I've never seen it actually be an issue

That was what I was looking for in Go, but they seem to have other goals in mind.

Failing that there is always Ada, .NET Native, Kotlin Native, D,...