From the JVM side, we have: Scala, Clojure, Groovy, Kotlin, etc thanks to RoboVM. From the CLR side, we have C# and F# thanks to Xamarin. Even the worst langu

From the JVM side, we have: Scala, Clojure, Groovy, Kotlin, etc thanks to RoboVM. From the CLR side, we have C# and F# thanks to Xamarin. Even the worst language among the six I have listed is still far better than the verbosity of Java.