Ballerina is an open-source, cloud-native programming language optimized for integration. It is 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.
Ballerina allows seamless switching between low-code and pro-code, enabling visual design with optional custom coding.
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.
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.
You can use the following resources to learn Ballerina.
Tip: If you are unsure whether you have found a bug, search the existing issues in the GitHub repo and raise it in the Ballerina Discord or Stack Overflow.
- Language, Tooling, Website: ballerina-lang repo
- Ballerina library: ballerina-library repo
- Send an email to [email protected]. 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.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Ballerina code is distributed under Apache license 2.0.
- Get help on Stack Overflow
- Join the conversations in Discord community.
- For more details on how to engage with the community, see Community.