<s>
Ballerina	B-Language
is	O
an	O
open	B-License
source	I-License
general-purpose	O
programming	O
language	O
designed	O
by	O
WSO2	O
for	O
cloud-era	O
application	O
programmers	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
project	O
started	O
in	O
2015	O
by	O
architects	O
from	O
WSO2	O
as	O
a	O
code-based	O
alternative	O
to	O
the	O
configuration-based	O
integration	O
tools	O
such	O
as	O
EAI	B-Architecture
,	O
ESB	B-Application
,	O
and	O
workflow	O
products	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
has	O
various	O
constructs	O
geared	O
toward	O
cloud-native	O
development	O
including	O
support	O
for	O
various	O
data	O
formats	O
and	O
protocols	O
,	O
reliability	O
,	O
distributed	O
transactions	O
,	O
APIs	B-Application
,	O
and	O
event	O
streams	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ballerina	B-Language
was	O
first	O
publicly	O
announced	O
in	O
2017	O
and	O
version	O
1.0	O
was	O
released	O
on	O
September	O
10	O
,	O
2019	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ballerina	B-Language
is	O
a	O
general-purpose	O
language	O
with	O
a	O
familiar	O
syntax	O
along	O
with	O
a	O
direct	O
graphical	O
representation	O
of	O
the	O
code	O
in	O
the	O
form	O
of	O
sequence	O
diagrams	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ballerina	B-Language
was	O
designed	O
by	O
WSO2	O
to	O
improve	O
productivity	O
for	O
application	B-Application
developers	I-Application
that	O
have	O
to	O
work	O
with	O
distributed	B-Architecture
computing	I-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
easy	O
to	O
write	O
and	O
modify	O
and	O
is	O
suitable	O
for	O
application	O
programmers	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
designers	O
,	O
who	O
provided	O
enterprise	B-Architecture
integration	I-Architecture
products	O
for	O
over	O
10	O
years	O
,	O
used	O
their	O
knowledge	O
of	O
the	O
industry	O
when	O
designing	O
the	O
language	O
,	O
says	O
WSO2	O
director	O
and	O
Ballerina	B-Language
founder	O
James	O
Clark	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
diagram	O
support	O
is	O
provided	O
through	O
the	O
Ballerina	B-Language
VS	O
Code	O
plugin	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
sample	O
program	O
for	O
creating	O
a	O
report	O
out	O
of	O
pull	O
request	O
data	O
retrieved	O
from	O
GitHub	B-Application
:	O
</s>
<s>
To	O
enable	O
generation	O
of	O
the	O
cloud	O
artifacts	O
,	O
the	O
users	O
can	O
use	O
the	O
cloud	O
build	O
option	O
in	O
the	O
Ballerina.toml	O
file	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ballerina.toml	O
file	O
:	O
</s>
