Comment by BenDaglish

I don't think there's the same feeling of "community" with Go as with other languages, in the same way that there's not really a C community - more a bunch of authors, evangelists and contributors who have a "stake" in the language. That's sort of the point, though. Go doesn't really need much more than it has already. It's a deliberately simple language, with standard format and documentation, a plethora of examples and a comprehensive stdlib. It was designed to serve particular purposes, and it does what it does really well. All it really needs in the way of community is a bugtracker and a StackOverflow section, and I suspect that the a lot of the "Go community are arrogant/negative/dismissive" type complaints can just be attributed to it being the same few people hearing the same complaints about lack of My Favourite Feature X over and over, despite the many blog posts, release notes and list discussions explaining why it's not there.