Kotlin would be the most direct comparison for sure. There is much less boilerplate than Java and also just by the fact that it’s a relatively new language (~1

Kotlin would be the most direct comparison for sure. There is much less boilerplate than Java and also just by the fact that it’s a relatively new language (~10 years old) that was allowed to grow without a large community attached to it for a long time but with an absolutely first class technical steering committee they actually had the chance to bring in a lot of really cool features without big messy community migrations. Even those major migrations that have occurred (I.e introducing fully sound null safety a couple of years ago) were done in such a smooth way it gave me a huge amount of hope for its future.