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Zig Meets the BEAM: Garrison Hinson-Hasty & Isaac Yonemoto on Safer Native Code

Jul 17, 2026 · 1h 02m

Everyone who's ever written a C NIF for the BEAM knows the story. You have a bottleneck, you reach for native code, it works - until one day it doesn't, and instead of a process crashing, the whole node goes down. A segfault in a NIF takes the entire BEAM with it, bypassing every fault-tolerance guarantee OTP was designed to provide.

ElixirZig

Jul 17, 2026 1h 02m