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
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