Ballerina – Cloud Native Programming Language
Ballerina is an open-source programming language for the cloud that makes it easier to use, combine and create network services.
Ballerina – Cloud Native Programming Language launched on May 1, 2018 with 40 votes, #897 of 2,986 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
In plain words
Ballerina is an open-source programming language designed specifically for building cloud-based network services and integrations. It includes built-in features for handling common integration tasks like processing JSON, XML, and tabular data with type safety. The language provides structural typing and network primitives that simplify writing and deploying services to cloud environments. Ballerina targets developers who need to combine and create networked services without relying on drag-and-drop tools or generic programming languages.
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Integration problems have been solved by restricted drag-and-drop tools/DSLs or generic programming languages that don't understand the unique challenges of integrations. Ballerina is the ONLY programming language designed for integration. Network primitives in the language make it simpler to write services and run them in the cloud. Structural types with support for openness are used both for static typing within a program and for describing service interfaces. Type-safe, declarative processing of JSON, XML, and tabular data with language-integrated queries. Programs have both a textual syntax and an equivalent graphical form based on sequence diagrams. Easy and efficient concurrency with…from ballerina.io
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