Ballerina is a general purpose, concurrent and strongly typed programming language with both textual and graphical syntaxes, which is optimized for enterprise integration. In this slide deck, Senaka explores what motivated him to learn Ballerina and how you to can learn and contribute to it.

1. Director Solutions Architecture, WSO2
How to Learn and Contribute to Ballerina
Senaka Fernando

2. • Ballerina - What, Why, Who?
• What motivated me to learn Ballerina
• Contributing to Ballerina
Outline

3. • A general purpose, concurrent and strongly typed
programming language
• Optimized for Enterprise Integration
• With both textual and graphical syntaxes
What is Ballerina

4. A Programming Language
for the ‘Networked World’

5. Ballerina is
Designed for
Developers

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7. • It’s easy to learn and code in Ballerina -
many examples available and more to come
• It’s designed for the right kind of technology
• It’s kind of cool - you need to try it!
What Motivated Me?

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9. The Way I See
‘Serverless’

10. Learning Ballerina is Easy

11. • Download “Tools + Runtime”
• Start the composer (cd bin; ./composer)
• Open http://localhost:9091/ on a browser
• Try out the Hello World sample
Getting Started with Ballerina
Open https://ballerinalang.org/ on a Browser

14. Routing Services Template

17. More Examples

18. • Copy to Clipboard
• Create New
• Paste in source view and open in design view
Experimenting with Examples
Visit https://ballerinalang.org/docs/by-example/

20. • F1 (or fn+F1) loads Ballerina by example
• In the Design View, use the Compact View to make
things easier to read
• In the Source View you can fold and expand source
code
Ballerina Editor Tips and Tricks
A Few Things to Remember

21. • Click each box to preview
• Use the Jump to Source to toggle the view
• It is easier to set breakpoints in Source View
Ballerina Editor Tips and Tricks
A Few Things to Remember

22. Swagger In/Swagger Out

23. It’s Easy to Import Swagger

26. Contributing to Ballerina

27. • Stackoverflow
• Slack channel
• Ballerina developer mailing list
• GitHub
Getting Involved

29. • https://github.com/ballerinalang/ballerina/issues
• Improving/extending IDE support
• Connectors for Ballerina
• Ballerina tracks at this conference
Getting Involved - Ways to Contribute

30. The ‘Ballerina BoF’ is Up Next
Join Us!

31. wso2.com