Y U SO VERBOSE JAVA?

dict.js

{"foo": "bar", "baz": "quux"}

hash.rb

{foo: 'bar', baz: 'quux'}

map.java

// Let's build a fun map object!
Map<String, String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
map.put("foo", "bar");
map.put("baz", "quux");
// By the time we get here, we've forgotten what we were doing

Could be worse, could be ObjC.