Java is a blue collar language in the eyes of people interested in language design and to be fair, some of them recognize its merits. The majority of programmers care more about their domain in which they are working and less about the language used in that domain.

What are the advantages of having a committee involved in the design of Go? In the case of C++, based on the threads that I read on HN, I see people being unhappy about the decisions taken by its committee.