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It seems to be fairly mature for something I've just heard of. It's crazy how many languages we have now. It's mostly a good thing, but I always wonder how nice it would be to have these immensely talented designers focusing on libraries for existing languages...etc. What is ballerina's performance? I assume it is alright being on the JVM?

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It is compiled and output is bytecode. Currently bytecode interpreter is in Java. In the future, it can run on other languages (go?) or using something like LLVM with we write an interpreter for the bytecode. However, to do that we need to port the connectors, which is some work.

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