It doesn't currently, but you are correct that the goal is to maintain feature parity with the BEAM (with explicit caveats to that, namely hot code loading). Th

It doesn't currently, but you are correct that the goal is to maintain feature parity with the BEAM (with explicit caveats to that, namely hot code loading). There actually is support for NIFs, just not via the erl_nif interface that NIFs use today, support for that will arrive eventually.