That’s exactly what ElixirKit (at the moment part of the Livebook repo, livebook/elixirkit at v0.14.0 · livebook-dev/livebook · GitHub). It embeds your Elixir app inside your macOS and Windows app using Swift and C# APIs, respectively.

Edit: oops, to be specific at the moment, it starts the VM is separate OS process and communicates with it over TCP. See Elixir Desktop for example where the GUI and the VM run in the same OS process, a requirement for iOS for example.

I think you got it wrong, the way to do this is the other way around, you run c/c++ code from erlang VM.

This kind of integration is not much different from how any other language integrates with C, in erlang you have NIFs and Ports as the main tools to interact with other programming languages.

I don’t know how IOS integration works, however on android you don’t embed kotlin into erlang vm, you actually have the android runtime and erlang VM running at the same time, using a channel to communicate between each-other.

You can’t, the runtime was never meant to be run as a library from other application code, it lacks a lot of prerequisites to do so. The way to do this is to use erlang VM as your runtime and run c/c++ code from there with the tools mentioned above, or to separate them entirely and set a communication channel between them.

Welcome! Your question made me think of another thread that had some activity lately: OpenGL-rendered Breakout clone in Elixir

These people tried to approach game development on the BEAM, from another angle.