Would be interesting to hear what kinds of BEAM-specific concepts would be important for a well-designed implementation. I was curious to learn more about what

Would be interesting to hear what kinds of BEAM-specific concepts would be important for a well-designed implementation. I was curious to learn more about what a "NIF" is and this was helpful towards understanding: http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/nif.html http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/nif.html Also I found this which shows there are many examples where NIFs extend what Erlang can do: http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/interfacing.html http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/interfacing.html