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by sanjiva
1697 days ago
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Ballerina is a standalone open source project and does not tie anyone to any WSO2 ecosystem. Please compare processing JSON in Java vs. Ballerina, typing network data in Java vs. Ballerina, writing HTTP/GraphQL/WebSocket/gRPC etc. services etc. in Java vs. Ballerina, calling network services in Java vs. Ballerina and then you'll see the difference between whatever your favorite Java framework (or rather combination of them) vs. Ballerina. (I'm the founder & CEO of WSO2 and one of the lead language designers.) |
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Except that Ballerina is created by WSO2 (the company) and used almost exclusively by that company. It's hard to find any usage outside (some of the) existing WSO2 customers. And the language itself is completely proprietary, developed by WSO2 and lock in by itself.
> Please compare processing JSON in Java vs. Ballerina, typing network data in Java vs. Ballerina, writing HTTP/GraphQL/WebSocket/gRPC etc. services etc. in Java vs. Ballerina, calling network services in Java vs. Ballerina and then you'll see the difference between whatever your favorite Java framework (or rather combination of them) vs. Ballerina.
Here I give you a credit. The ergonomic is much nicer than what exists today in Java frameworks.
What I don't agree is, that you need a language to have these features you listed. You could get 90% of them in Java (or Kotlin, or Clojure, or Scala, or Groovy, ...) if they were implemented as a standalone Java/JVM library, and not require Ballerina the language.