Ballerina is a programming language for network distributed applications.
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 can use one of the following options to try out Ballerina.
You can download the Ballerina distribution at http://ballerina.io.
Alternatively, you can install Ballerina from the source using the following instructions.
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Clone this repository using the following command.
git clone --recursive https://github.com/ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
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Build project with Gradle. Use following command on Unix/macOS:
./gradlew build
or the following command on Windows:
gradlew build
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Extract the Ballerina distribution created at
distribution/zip/jballerina-tools/build/extracted-distributions/ballerina-<version>-SNAPSHOT.zip.
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.
- Technical questions should be posted on Stack Overflow with the #ballerina tag.
- Ballerina performance test results are available here.