Introduction
The Ballerina programming language has a unique concurrency model that promotes efficient resource usage and provides an intuitive programming model for users. Its concurrency model is also critical to the non-blocking I/O support provided with the communication protocols. In this article, we will take an in-depth look into Ballerina’s concurrency support, and see how the non-blocking I/O operations are implemented on top of this.
Let’s first take a look at the general concurrency constructs provided by an operating system and how they work, and then move onto the concurrency primitives provided by Ballerina.