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Re:Ballerina, a language with structural type system by sanjiva on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @04:47AM (#20926243)
Ballerina does NOT force you to write "visually". You can write normal code and NEVER look at a picture.

However, after you're done, if to see the flow of your entire program (not just one function) as a sequence diagram then you can get that done.

The language syntax is "normal" syntax and has all the power o a modern language. Try it and see- feedback welcome.

Disclaimer: I'm the one who started the project and leading it as the product manager now.

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Re:Ballerina, a language with structural type system by aloknnikhil on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @11:33AM (#20929330)
Then I'm struggling to understand the value proposition. If I did want to stick to implementing it visually through sequence diagrams, can I implement all the examples through a sequence diagram and have it run on Ballerina? Really curious. If yes, I'd really like to try it. There are no instructions/examples on doing that.

EDIT: I found a link to using the graphical editor in the comments here.

https://v1-0.ballerina.io/learn/tools-ides/vscode-plugin/gra...

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