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The Ballerina Programming Language

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The Ballerina programming language

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.

Providing and consuming services

It has inherently concurrent first-class language constructs for providing and consuming services.

Low code and pro code support

Ballerina allows seamless switching between low-code and pro-code, enabling visual design with optional custom coding.

Structural typing

It allows for looser coupling between distributed components and eliminates the friction of data binding.

Metadata

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.

Download and install

For instructions on downloading and installing, see Ballerina Downloads.

Installation options

For more installation options, see Installation options.

Get the VS Code extension

Try out Ballerina's development capabilities using the Ballerina extension for Visual Studio Code.

Get started

You can use the following resources to learn Ballerina.

Report issues

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.

Open an issue

Report security issues

Contribute to Ballerina

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.

License

Ballerina code is distributed under Apache license 2.0.

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ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang

The Ballerina Programming Language

Ballerina

3,863

115,467 commits

updated Oct 12, 2026

See the code

README

License X stackoverflow Join the community on Discord

The Ballerina programming language

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.

Providing and consuming services

It has inherently concurrent first-class language constructs for providing and consuming services.

Low code and pro code support

Ballerina allows seamless switching between low-code and pro-code, enabling visual design with optional custom coding.

Structural typing

It allows for looser coupling between distributed components and eliminates the friction of data binding.

Metadata

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.

Download and install

For instructions on downloading and installing, see Ballerina Downloads.

Installation options

For more installation options, see Installation options.

Get the VS Code extension

Try out Ballerina's development capabilities using the Ballerina extension for Visual Studio Code.

Get started

You can use the following resources to learn Ballerina.

Report issues

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.

Open an issue

Report security issues

Contribute to Ballerina

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.

License

Ballerina code is distributed under Apache license 2.0.

Join the community

ballerina
ballerina-lang
cloud-native
compiler
hacktoberfest
integration
language
programming-language

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