Overview
Ballerina is a cloud-native programming language designed specifically for integration. It addresses the integration gap left by restricted drag-and-drop tools/DSLs and general-purpose languages that don't fully understand integration challenges. With built-in network primitives, Ballerina simplifies writing services for cloud environments. Its flexible typing system uses structural types with openness for static typing and service interface descriptions. It excels in type-safe, declarative processing of JSON, XML, and tabular data with language-integrated queries. Programs can be viewed textually or graphically as sequence diagrams, enabling easy and efficient concurrency with language-managed threads. Explicit error handling, static types, and concurrency safety ensure reliable and maintainable code. Developed by WSO2 since 2016, it was first released in February 2022.