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Ballerina is an open-source, cloud-native programming language optimized for integration. It is developed and supported byWSO2.

With Ballerina, you could easily develop microservices, API endpoints and integrations,and any other application for the cloud. Additionally, Ballerina has all the general-purposefunctionalities you could expect from a modern programming language.

With Ballerina's compiler-level built-in support for widely used data types suchas 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 fromthe source code.

For instructions on downloading and installing, seeBallerina Downloads.

For more installation options, seeInstallation options.

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

You can use the following resources to learn Ballerina.

• Get started
• Ballerina by Example
• Ballerina learn pages and guides

Tip: If you are unsure whether you have found a bug, search the existing issues in the GitHub repo and raise it in theBallerina Discord orStack Overflow.

• Language, Tooling, Website:ballerina-lang repo
• Ballerina library:ballerina-library repo

• Send an email tosecurity@ballerina.io. For details, see thesecurity policy.

As an open-source project, Ballerina welcomes contributions from the community. To start contributing, read thesecontribution guidelines for information on how you should go about contributing to our project.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Ballerina code is distributed underApache license 2.0.

• Get help onStack Overflow
• Join the conversations inDiscord community.
• For more details on how to engage with the community, seeCommunity.