Ballerina allows you to code with a statically-typed, interaction-centric programming language where microservices, APIs, and streams are first-class constructs. You can use your preferred IDE and CI/CD tools. Discover, consume, and share packages that integrate endpoints with Ballerina Central. Build binaries, containers, and Kubernetes artifacts and deploy as chaos-ready services on cloud and serverless infrastructure. Integrate distributed endpoints with simple syntax for resiliency, circuit breakers, transactions, and events.
You can use one of the following options to try out Ballerina.
- Getting Started
- Quick Tour
- Ballerina by Example
- Ballerina by Guide
- Language Specification
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
If you download the sources, you need to update the git submodules using the following command.
git submodule update --init
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Run the Maven command
mvn clean installfrom the repository root directory. -
Extract the Ballerina distribution created at
distribution/zip/ballerina/target/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.
- User support should be posted on Stack Overflow with the #ballerina tag.