James Clark on How Ballerina Handles Network Interaction, Data, and Concurrency

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29/11/2021 22 min
James Clark on How Ballerina Handles Network Interaction, Data, and Concurrency

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Charles Humble discusses the design of the Ballerina programming language with its lead designer James Clark. They discuss how the goals of the language inform a number of design choices including: the type system, error handling, the concurrency model, and the language’s built in support for visualization of program flows.

Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3xBZTQP

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