Go team is actually incredibly open and approachable if you meet them at conferences. Google (as a company) has little influence on the language design design.

Go team is actually incredibly open and approachable if you meet them at conferences. Google (as a company) has little influence on the language design design. Its needs has shaped design (obviously), but it's not like there are requirements outside of the Go team. Go is heavily used in Google, so it's a natural dogfooding process, but that's it.