[redy]

This actually does look great.

There's real value here. In a world being overrun with services what's desperately needed is an orchestration language. Such a language is severely focused on consuming services/messages, converting data, and then uploading data/messages. This is the next Unix shell; a tool whose only purpose would be to stitch together services, pipe data, schedule execution, and display results. An integration dsl.

But it's not clear ballerina that can really do that. Would love to see a more real world example that demonstrates it really solves the integration/scripting problem.

[sanjiva]

Ballerina is designed exactly for that; to be the Unix shell of the Internet basically. Deep understanding of JSON, XML, MIME, SQL etc., networked execution naturally, parallelism naturally, resiliency, etc..

Only time will tell whether we get the mix right.

[hliyan]

The built in JSON type is a real killer feature for me: https://github.com/ballerinalang/ballerina/blob/master/docs/...

Dealing with JSON objects in Java has been a pain which often caused me to pick Node.js. I always wanted another typed language that supports JSON literals...

[deependra]

https://github.com/ballerinalang/ballerina/tree/ballerina-by...