[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...