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Author here. When I started working on SatPulse a few years ago, I was focused on a narrow use case: making it easy to create your own PTP server using inexpensive hardware. But it…

Another paper saying something similar https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3550308

I didn't say that all the listed problems were caused by the goal of being familiar. It doesn't yet have generics because they are hard to get right and the language is still at an…

There’s lots of detail in the language spec: https://ballerina.io/spec/lang/2019R3/ I also wrote a blog explaining what we are trying to achieve: https://blog.jclark.com/2019/09/ba…

Ballerina has simple lambdas e.g. x => x + 1.

The language has a lot of syntactic compromises, because it has a design goal of being familiar to users of C-family languages like C, JavaScript, Java, C#, etc.

Thank you for your comments. Both the cartoon and the sentence you highlighted have been fixed. We want to create an environment where everybody feels welcome. Your rule about not …

Here's what the spec [1] says about the sequence diagram aspect of the language: "[Ballerina's] abstractions and syntax for concurrency and network interaction have been designed s…