Interfacing Erlang with the Outer World

Native Libraries

Note

This page was created between 2016 and 2018, more changes might have happened since.

There are plenty of different approaches on integrating NIFs written in other languages:

C

• edtk, a port driver toolkit

• dryverl (license BSD)

• C/C++ Generic Erlang Port Driver (license MIT)

• Nifty, a NIF wrapper generator

C++

• EPI (license LGPL)

• eixx (license Apache2)

• C/C++ Generic Erlang Port Driver (license MIT)

• C++11 NIFPP (license Boost)

Lua

• erlua

• erlualib (license MIT)

Python

• Pyrlang (Erlang node written in asyncio) (license Apache2)

• ErlPort (see below in “Ports”)

• erlang_py (license MIT)

• py_interface Website, Github (license LGPL)

• PyErl Github (license MPL)

Ruby

• ErlPort (see below in “Ports”)

• Erlang Term Format (Ruby) (MIT)

PHP

• Erlang Term Format (PHP) (MIT)

Rust

• Rustler (license Apache, MIT)

• erlang-rust-nif

Nim

• nimler (MIT)

Javascript

• Erlang Term Format (Javascript) (MIT)

Perl

• Erlang Term Format (Perl) (MIT)

Ports and Network

For the situations when you still need the speed and can tolerate some call latency over, but don’t want to risk crashing your node: choose interaction over network or a port.

• Erlport

• CloudI, A private cloud engine (C/C++, Erlang/Elixir, Java, JavaScript/node.js, Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby)