A modern programming language that makes developers happier.

kotlinlang

but the thing is
in most cases
you can use the jvm while in development
and only use native-image once in a while to check it works

actually that would be the promise of java, write it once run it everywhere. afaik (and admittedly I don’t know much) graalvm is a bit behind in terms of language support, but if you compile down to what is supported it should not be a problem to develop on a different vm

latest supported version is 11
and yes, some features are not supported
like security manager, etc.
but that’s expected when you actually remove code from the platform