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20x was always an exaggeration. It counted class boilerplate and compared stuff like hello world which was always "decorated". As scale that overhead gets minimized. Java will always be a bit more verbose than some other languages. It's strict. By definition that's more verbose. It also forces declarations (e.g. public). Again, a choice to keep things clear.

But that's not the code that takes time to write or read. In that department Java isn't more verbose in a significant amount. If you're the type of person that gets upset that every line ends with a semicolon or that we need to repeat the word public for many methods. Then sure. Java is verbose.

Looking at the body of a Java method I don't see something I can significantly cut down with TypeScript or Python.