Ballerina by Example teaches you the Ballerina language incrementally with commented examples that cover every nuance of the syntax. The source for these can be found in this repository.

Ballerina makes it easy to write microservices that integrate APIs.

A compiled, transactional, statically and strongly typed programming language with textual and graphical syntaxes. Ballerina incorporates fundamental concepts of distributed system integration and offers a type safe, concurrent environment to implement microservices.

A type system that embraces network payload variability with primitive, object, union, and tuple types.

An execution model composed of lightweight parallel worker units that are non-blocking where no function can lock an executing thread manifesting sequence concurrency.

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.

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