oh boy -- lot's of work ahead for you folks, best of luck! I'll be watching this project. We do a ton with GCP so when this matures we'll be looking at it more.
Yes lots and lots of work, but we enjoy doing it :)
About ballerina, there are similarities to wing, but at a high level it is focused on simplifying networking whereas Winglang is about simplifying the use of cloud services.
How do you compete with -- if at all -- with Ballerina lang? https://ballerina.io/