ballerina ☆

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Description:
Programming Language for Network Distributed Applications

Type: Formula | Latest Version: 2201.13.1@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 17, 2025

Links: Homepage | @ballerinalang | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: programming-language networking microservices integration cloud-native distributed-systems

Install: brew install ballerina

About:
Ballerina is an open-source, cloud-native programming language designed for building network-distributed applications with built-in sequence diagrams and structural typing. It simplifies integration by providing first-class support for network interaction, concurrency, and data transformation. The language offers a compiler that generates sequence diagrams, making API contracts and integration flows visually understandable.

Key Features:

Sequence diagram-based syntax for visualizing integration flows
Built-in network primitives and protocol support (HTTP, gRPC, GraphQL)
Structural typing system with JSON/XML as first-class citizens
Concurrency model based on lightweight parallel workers
Compiler-generated sequence diagrams for documentation

Use Cases:

Building microservices and API gateways
Enterprise integration and middleware development
Cloud-native application development
Network protocol implementation and testing

Alternatives:

Go – Lower-level language without built-in sequence diagram visualization or network-specific abstractions
Node.js – JavaScript runtime requiring external frameworks for network integration patterns
Spring Boot – Java framework with more boilerplate compared to Ballerina's domain-specific language approach

License: Apache-2.0

Dependencies: openjdk

Bottles available for: all

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Nov 15, 2025 9:07pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	595c392b
Nov 11, 2025 5:24pm		0	VERSION_BUMP	74c61f44