June is what ordinary Java would look like if it were simpler, more reliable, and disguised as a scripting language. Run from source - or compile to class files with no dependencies on June itself.

Here's Hello World:

out.println('Hello, world!')

Or put a shebang in front for fun:

#!/usr/bin/env june
out.println('Hello, world!')

Simple summary:

• Statically typed.
• Really almost just Java on the inside.
• No checked exceptions.
• Simplified generics.
• Closures.
• Compiles to Java classes.
• Null and non-null handling.
• Simplified handling of autoboxing and primitives as objects.
• Hopefully possible to compile Java and June in one pass, allowing you to convert one file at a time.
• Uses '#' for comments to ease Unix-like scripting expectations.

Very simple scripts work, but there's a long way to go on implementation.

I'm releasing June code as public domain.