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The Ballerina Programming Language

14 good first / help-wanted issues · Ballerina · last activity Aug 12, 2026

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[Improvement]: Ability to change Settings.toml via bal command about 2 months ago
Type/Improvement good first issue Team/DevTools Area/ProjectAPI
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The Ballerina Programming Language

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User friendly compile time error message when using `new` with a class that has an `init` method with module-level visibility 4 months ago
Type/Improvement good first issue Team/CompilerFE Area/Diagnostics
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The Ballerina Programming Language

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[Bug]: Invalid error message: must be `resource function` instead of `resource_func` 6 months ago
Type/Bug Area/Compiler good first issue Team/CompilerFE userCategory/Compilation
ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
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The Ballerina Programming Language

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[Improvement]: Print a warning when there is no `Package.md` when running `bal pack` 9 months ago
Type/Improvement good first issue Team/DevTools Area/CLI-BuildTools Hacktoberfest Credits/20
ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
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The Ballerina Programming Language

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Using an undefined type in a service decl results in a misleading error message 9 months ago
Type/Improvement good first issue Area/Diagnostics Hacktoberfest
ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
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The Ballerina Programming Language

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[Improvement]: Improve errors for worker sync send and worker receive actions within lock statements 9 months ago
Type/Improvement good first issue Team/CompilerFE Area/Diagnostics
ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
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The Ballerina Programming Language

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[Bug]: Incorrect error diagnostic message when return result is not defined for a worker that expects a return value 9 months ago
Type/Bug good first issue Team/CompilerFE Area/Diagnostics userCategory/Compilation
ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
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The Ballerina Programming Language

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[Improvement]: Add a method to return the dependency levels to DepenendencyGraph.java class 12 months ago
Type/Improvement good first issue Area/ProjectAPI
ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
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The Ballerina Programming Language

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[Bug]: Ballerina brew installation uses the local machine jre 12 months ago
Type/Bug Area/CLI good first issue Hacktoberfest
ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
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The Ballerina Programming Language

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[Improvement]: Output a readable dependency tree for `bal graph` about 1 year ago
Type/Improvement good first issue Team/DevTools Area/CLI-BuildTools Hacktoberfest Credits/45
ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
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The Ballerina Programming Language

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`(1|2|3)[]` type in diagnostics is printed as `'1|2|3[]'` instead of `'(1|2|3)[]'` about 1 year ago
Type/Bug good first issue Team/CompilerFE Area/Diagnostics Hacktoberfest Credits/20
ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
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The Ballerina Programming Language

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[Task]: Replace `assert` statements with proper assertion error about 1 year ago
Type/Task good first issue Team/jBallerina Hacktoberfest Credits/20
ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
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The Ballerina Programming Language

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Issues in errors logged for invalid completion types in stream type-descriptors about 1 year ago
Type/Bug good first issue Team/CompilerFE Hacktoberfest Credits/30
ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
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The Ballerina Programming Language

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Module directories are missing in the repo about 1 year ago
Type/Bug good first issue Team/CICD Hacktoberfest Credits/20
ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang
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The Ballerina Programming Language

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