The only person from the original three creators who still actively takes part in the language's evolution seems to be Robert Griesemer. Ken Thompson is retired

The only person from the original three creators who still actively takes part in the language's evolution seems to be Robert Griesemer. Ken Thompson is retired, and Rob Pike seems to have moved to other projects (Upspin?). Robert Griesemer is still active, but mostly "debugging" the language specification. The impression I get is that Russ Cox is pretty much the Chief Designer right now (pardon the Sergey Korolyov reference). The original three authors have said that they would not add a feature to the language if one of them opposed it, which is how they kept it simple. I wonder if rsc has anyone to say "no" to him.