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== History ==

Ballerina was designed by WSO2 to improve productivity for application developers that have to work with [[Distributed computing|distributed cloud-native systems]]. The designers, who provided enterprise products in the [[Enterprise integration|integration]] space for over 10 years, used their knowledge of the industry when designing the language.,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blog.jclark.com/2019/09/ballerina-programming-language-part-0.html|title=Ballerina Programming Language Part 0 - Context|last=Clark|first=James|access-date=2020-09-16|language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blog.jclark.com/2019/09/ballerina-programming-language-part-1.html|title=Ballerina Programming Language Part 1 - Concepts|last=Clark|first=James|access-date=2020-09-16|language=en-GB}}</ref> says WSO2 director and Ballerina founder James Clark.
Ballerina was first publicly announced in 2017 and version 1.0 was released on September 10, 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/09/10/1913510/0/en/Ballerina-Reinvents-Cloud-Native-Middleware-as-a-Programming-Language-Puts-ESB-on-the-Path-to-Extinction.html|title=Ballerina Reinvents Cloud-Native Middleware as a Programming Language|website=GlobeNewswire|access-date=2020-09-16}}</ref>

== Design ==