Nice. One thing about Erlang/OTP has always been the fact that it is rather bound to the confines of its own VM, and has never been popular as a language for in

Nice. One thing about Erlang/OTP has always been the fact that it is rather bound to the confines of its own VM, and has never been popular as a language for interacting with the host OS on a very deep level, instead it's the VM itself that you overwhelmingly use as your platform. Though you have mechanisms like port drivers and NIFs to interact with the outside world, they don't seem to have been very popular for doing systems programming or using low-level POSIX interfaces, even if there is some work on that front. It'd be interesting to exploit Erlang's unique properties in building lower level OS infrastructure. I should probably play around with some of the bindings that have been written one day. Also worth checking out is the Nerves Project, a buildroot-based embedded Erlang distribution: http://nerves-project.org/ http://nerves-project.org/