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.

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

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