installation

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires

macOS

Homebrewvérifié · 100%

brew install ballerina

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Nixvérifié · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#ballerina

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ba/ballerina/package.nix · Source: api.github.com

aperçu

Résumé du paquet

Programming Language for Network Distributed Applications

Liens du projet

Commandes et alias

bal

historique

Historique du projet et usages

Ballerina is an open-source, cloud-native programming language developed by WSO2 for integration, network services, data handling, and API-oriented applications. The Homebrew package installs the `bal` toolchain for building, running, testing, formatting, packaging, and publishing Ballerina code.

Historique du projet

The Ballerina homepage describes it as a programming language for the cloud that makes it easier to use, combine, and create network services. The same page says WSO2 has developed Ballerina since 2016 and that it was first released in February 2022.

The ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang GitHub repository was created on November 16, 2016. The project positions the language around integration as code, with built-in support for network protocols, data formats, connectors, concurrency, sequence-diagram-oriented views, and cloud-native deployment.

Historique d'adoption

Ballerina adoption is tied to WSO2's integration ecosystem, Ballerina Central, and users building services, connectors, data pipelines, and enterprise integration patterns. The homepage lists users and case-study links including WSO2, Red Cross Elixir, Fat Tuesday, MOSIP, QHAna, RAAPID, Choreo, Tech Venturas, Visualize HR, and Avinya Foundation.

Package-manager adoption is narrower than mainstream languages but present: the input facts list Homebrew and Nix packages. The Homebrew formula API reported stable version 2201.13.4 with 24 installs in the previous 30 days as of June 30, 2026.

Modes d'utilisation

The `bal` CLI supports project and module workflows around `Ballerina.toml`, runtime configuration via `Config.toml`, package management through Ballerina Central, tests, documentation generation, OpenAPI/GraphQL/AsyncAPI/gRPC tooling, Java interop, observability, container and Kubernetes deployment guidance, and GraalVM native executable workflows.

Typical use cases include REST, GraphQL, gRPC, Kafka, database, data-processing, and integration services where network and data abstractions are part of the language and standard ecosystem.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

Ballerina is significant because it is not just another JVM-hosted language package; it packages a language designed around integration semantics, network resources, typed data, and service tooling. For package nerds, it is a full toolchain with its own package registry, config conventions, code generators, docs tooling, and deployment story exposed through one `bal` executable.

Chronologie

2016: WSO2 begins developing Ballerina, according to the official homepage.
2016-11-16: ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang repository created on GitHub.
2022-02: Official homepage says Ballerina was first released.
2026-06-04: GitHub latest release endpoint reported ballerina-lang v2201.12.12.
2026-06-30: Homebrew formula reports stable ballerina 2201.13.4.

Related projects

Ballerina Central is the package and connector ecosystem referenced by the official Learn page.
Related tooling includes the Ballerina VS Code extension, OpenAPI, GraphQL, AsyncAPI, gRPC, health/FHIR/HL7, EDI, WSDL, XSD, persist, scan, profiler, and GraalVM executable tooling documented in the Learn section.

Sources

posture de sécurité

Niveau de risque : yellow

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

Classificateur de risque

risque yellow · confiance moyen · runtime

Pourquoi

generalized runtime or code generation signal

Signaux

text:programming language

Comportement d'installation

Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 1 plateformes.
S’installe avec 1 dépendances d’exécution.

Revue recommandée

Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: ./Ballerina.toml./Config.toml./tests/Config.toml~/.ballerina/Settings.toml

Credential files

Credential-bearing paths to review before unattended agent runs.

Unix: ~/.ballerina/Settings.toml

exécutables

Exécutables installés

Commande	Type	Exposition	Note
`bal`	cli	exécutable global

fraîcheur

Version et fraîcheur

Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.

page générée2026-07-08

version du gestionnaire2201.13.4

gestionnaire mis à jour2026-05-11

données localesOK

amontnot checked

dernière version détectéenon détecté

https://ballerina.io

infoRelease/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.https://ballerina.ioconfiance none

métadonnées d'installation

Métadonnées du paquet

Clé du paquet	brew:ballerina
Version	2201.13.4
Gestionnaire de paquets	Homebrew
Page du gestionnaire de paquets	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ballerina
Page d'accueil	https://ballerina.io
Dépôt	https://github.com/ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
Docs amont	https://ballerina.io/learn
Licence	Apache-2.0
Archive source	https://dist.ballerina.io/downloads/2201.13.4/ballerina-2201.13.4-swan-lake.zip
Dernière mise à jour	2026-05-11T06:50:01Z
Pulse	updated
Dépendances	openjdk
Bouteille	disponible (sur all)
post-install Homebrew	non défini
Service	aucun déclaré

faits du registre

Détails de la base source

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	ballerina
Aliases	bal
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	stable

correspondances dans les bases sources

Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.

Nix95%

ballerina

nix profile install nixpkgs#ballerina

normalized package name match
Correspondance par : Ballerina

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ba/ballerina/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

graphe de paquets

Les liens viennent du graphe local de relations entre paquets, des suppléments, des dépendances, des correspondances d'écosystèmes et de l'appartenance aux hubs.

piste source

Généré depuis les données du dépôt

Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/ballerina.yml

Sources utilisées

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

Installer ballerina avec Homebrew, Nix