Interfacing Erlang with the Outer World

Native Libraries

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

C Language

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 (licence 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

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)

Last modified: 10 June 2024