The Go community is incredibly lucky having had a person as lead with such outstanding technical skills and at the same time a great sense of strategic long term view. As this was not enough, I remember reading some discussions where I thought "Damn, this rsc guy has a lot of patience."

Go evolves slowly but steadily. No drama, no politics (external, I don't know about the internal), not social justice wars, just great technical and community work focussing on the thing at hand: A programming language and ecosystem.