Have a look:
Ceylon
This language is being developed by Gavin King who has denied that the language being developed at Red Hat, is meant to be a “Java killer.” Among King’s gripes are Java’s verbose syntax, its lack of first-class and higher-order functions, and its poor support for meta-programming. In particular, he’s frustrated with the absence of a declarative syntax for structured data definition, which he says leaves Java “joined at the hip to XML.” Ceylon aims to solve all these problems.
Go
Google is understood to have created a programming language called Golang, or Go. This, say some tech analysts, might just end up replacing Java altogether. This language is a general-purpose programming code that works on everything from application development to systems programing. While it is still a work in progress, and the language specification may change, developers can actually start working with it today itself.