It is actually a good thing. The more forks there are and more complicated ideas and toys, the more mess and chaos. It can eventually kill the whole ecosystem.

It is actually a good thing. The more forks there are and more complicated ideas and toys, the more mess and chaos. It can eventually kill the whole ecosystem. I love open-source and libre software but there needs to be some central authority who oversees the changes and is forward-thinking. I actually love Go in the way it is and it wouldn't be it if you kept asking community what features to integrate. I am looking forward to generics as it solves some cases (containers holding items of a templated type sharing some common methods). But even if Go stayed the way it is, I would be fine. The point of open and libre in this project for me is that Google can't shut it down and that's enough for me in the case of prog language. Please, if you want to make super-crazy-new community-driven uber-language which will change the world, make yet another and truly yours language or join Rust or whatever more community-driven language you like. Thank you! :)