Ballerina Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Show HN: Winglang – a new Cloud-Oriented programming language

  Oh boy -- lot's of work ahead for you folks, best of luck! I'll be watching this project. We do a ton with GCP so when this matures we'll be looking at it more. How do you compete with -- if at all -- with Ballerina lang? https://ballerina.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• crafting interpreters or engineering a compiler?

  PS: This advice stems from my personal experience while building BallerinaLang. We spent the first two to three years working with our own bytecode interpreter before we transitioned to JVM bytecode. Our LLVM backend is still under development and has a long way to go. Source: 11 months ago

• Is there a programming language that will blow my mind?

  Considering your rich background in C++ and Haskell, along with your interest in functional programming paradigms, I wouldn't necessarily predict that Ballerina will "blow your mind." However, you might find certain familiar syntax while encountering numerous "why?" questions. Source: 11 months ago

• Cloud, Why So Difficult?

  Ballerina actually showed some innovative ways to do it and is an interesting language to keep an eye on... finally, Unison decided to focus on its cloud offering and seamless distributed functional programming. Also a really cool language. Source: 11 months ago

• What are some new/up and coming programming languages? Where did you find them?

  Last week I found Ballerina (https://ballerina.io/) via a comment here on HN, which got me thinking that I've gotten a bit out of touch with newer/up and coming languages in development. My guess is that, if I missed Ballerina before a week ago, I've probably missed quite a bit more. What have I missed? And it would be cool to see where people are finding these types of things too. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Are there any languages with transactions as a first-class concept?

  Https://ballerina.io/ and https://www.asyncapi.com/ seem like two efforts to move in this direction a bit for web APIs. Source: over 1 year ago

• Wing: A cloud-oriented programming language

  Reminds me of https://ballerina.io/ ... Which looks actually pretty nice, but I suspect the name of the project is a terrible marketing decision that will hold adoption back ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Cadl: a new IDL

  First take: this seems so much less feature-rich than something like Ballerina, but I suppose it will appeal to those who prefer to get all their Azure-related tooling from Microsoft and/or prefer their stack to be entirely JS-based. (Cadl seems to be a product of TypeScript.). - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Why aren't code diagram generating tools more common?

  I haven't tried it, but the thing that I found fascinating about the Ballerina language is that it automatically generates sequence diagrams. Seems like a very powerful feature. https://ballerina.io/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Ballerina for Full-Stack Developers: A Guide to Creating Backend APIs

  This InfoQ article by Imesha Sudasingha gives a brief, but comprehensive overview of the Ballerina programming language’s support for writing backend APIs. Source: about 2 years ago

• Learning a new language through AoC be like...

  Could be worse. My day7 and day8 solutions were both valid Ballerina, but both of them crashed the compiler for reasons that aren't obvious to me. Source: over 2 years ago

• -🎄- 2021 Day 2 Solutions -🎄-

  Still sticking with Ballerina, but today I hit my first bit of "new language rough edges": the stdlib doesn't have any good regex functions to speak of, and when I tried to pull in a third-party dependency from "Ballerina Central", the compiler blew up. Source: over 2 years ago

• -🎄- 2021 Day 1 Solutions -🎄-

  Taking this year as an opportunity to learn Ballerina. Seems like a neat language:. Source: over 2 years ago