[erlang-questions] erts inside a larger C program

[jm]

This is my fall back position. The trouble with this is the coordination 
needed. If the GUI crashes the backend will still be running. There's 
also the problem of running with sockets exposed on multi-user machine. 
I suppose, just tinking aloud for a moment, the way to approach this is 
to start erlang and then have erlang execute an external program as a 
port and then this external program provides the GUI. Any scripts that 
the GUI wishes to execute would be sent to erlang executed as a 
monitored process and the results sent back to the GUI. If the GUI 
crashes erlang can catch it, possible do some diagnostics, and, if 
appropriate, execute a simple GUI to notify the user of the reason.


Jeff.


Hynek Vychodil wrote:
> Is there any reason why your application can't work as erlang node 
> through ei interface instead be "inside"? Performance, shared memory?
>