[toast0]

You can use a BEAM system to orchestrate other code, too. As ports, port drivers, nifs, c-nodes, just other OS processes spawned and using IPC/sockets. Lots of options. Using Erlang to supervise an OS process doing work perhaps enhances the isolation principles of BEAM.

[tough]

oh interesting wasnt really aware

so you could use beam to orchestrate go or rust services communicating over IPC? Nice

[rramadass]

See also CloudI a Cloud System built using Erlang - https://cloudi.org/index.html

[tough]

TY! Very interesting!

[cess11]

To add to that, the BEAM has binaries as a data type so when you're talking to a foreign program you can quickly prototype or design binary protocols once you get tired of parsing/encoding JSON or XML or something at the edges. Depending on the facilities of the foreign language it might be more or less feasible, of course.

[lamuswawir]

The binary interface makes interop easier with other langauges. A note of incompatibility in versions after OTP-24 with those before.