This is way less safe than Rust. NIFs have a major downside in that it can take down the entire BEAM if they misbehave. And a huge reason why people use Erlan

This is way less safe than Rust. NIFs have a major downside in that it can take down the entire BEAM if they misbehave. And a huge reason why people use Erlang, is its resiliency from outages. With Rust memory protection, it gives people more confidence in using NIFs for exactly that reason.