Ballerina has had a major revamp since the 2019 release and we recently released the first of a series of betas before making it GA. Some of the key features of the language include:
- data orientation
- flexible typing (including service typing) with major improvements in the type system
- text and graphical syntax symmetry
- cloud native features with support for easy production and consumption of services
- convenient concurrency model similar to coroutines and a lot of concurrency safety introduced with readonly and isolated types
Release blog: https://blog.ballerina.io/posts/announcing-ballerina-swan-la...
Short tutorial on how to write a service in Ballerina: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxyIKoHl3Dw&ab_channel=Balle...
In-depth slide deck: https://ballerina.io/learn/language-concepts/Ballerina_Langu...
Video presentation of these slides: https://ballerina.io/learn/language-concepts/