Ballerina is a statically typed, open-source cloud-native programming language developed and supported by WSO2.
With Ballerina, you could easily develop microservices, API endpoints and integrations, and any other application for the cloud. Additionally, Ballerina has all the general-purpose functionalities you could expect from a modern programming language.
With Ballerina's compiler-level built-in support for widely used data types such as JSON and XML, your focus on handling structured data, network service interactions, and dealing with concurrency is made much more effective.
It has inherently concurrent first-class language constructs for providing and consuming services.
Sequence diagram based graphical view shows the most fundamental aspect of the semantics of a network distributed application.
It allows for looser coupling between distributed components and eliminates the friction of data binding.
Extensible metadata enables easy integration of Ballerina programs with cloud platforms. You could directly generate Docker and Kubernetes artifacts straight away from the source code.
You can use one of the following options to try out Ballerina.
For instructions on downloading and installing, see Ballerina Downloads.
For more installation options, see Installation options.
Try out Ballerina's development capabilities using the Ballerina extension for Visual Studio Code.
Report an issue in the relevant repo out of the GitHub repos listed below.
Tip: If you are unsure whether you have found a bug, search the existing issues in the corresponding repo on GitHub and raise it in the Ballerina Slack channel.
- Compiler, runtime, or tooling: ballerina-lang repo
- Standard library: ballerina-standard-library repo
- Language specification: ballerina-spec repo
- Website: ballerina-dev-website repo
- Security flaw: send an email to security@ballerina.io. For details, see the security policy.
As an open source project, Ballerina welcomes contributions from the community. To start contributing, read these contribution guidelines for information on how you should go about contributing to our project.
Check the issue tracker for open issues that interest you. We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Ballerina code is distributed under Apache license 2.0.
- The ballerina-dev@googlegroups.com mailing list is for discussing code changes to the Ballerina project.
- Chat live with us on our Slack channel and engage with the Ballerina community.
- Technical questions should be posted on Stack Overflow with the #ballerina tag.
- Ballerina performance test results are available here.