otp_pony_node

An Erlang C node for Pony. Your program joins a running BEAM as a node, sends and receives Erlang terms, and keeps them as Pony values.

use "erl_interface_pony"

actor Main
  new create(env: Env) =>
    let node = EInterface("pony", "secretcookie")

    match node.connect("app@localhost")
    | ConnectionSucceeded =>
      let message = EMessage.begin()
      try message.encode(ErlangTuple([ErlangAtom("hello")]))? end

      match node.send_to_registered("app", message, 500)
      | SentOk => env.out.print("sent")
      else env.out.print("was not sent")
      end
    | ConnectionFailed =>
      env.out.print("no node there (" + node.last_error() + ")")
    end

Terms arrive as values of their own kind: ErlangAtom, ErlangInteger, ErlangTuple, ErlangMap and the rest. They compare and hash by content, so a term can be a Map key, and a message is read by matching on types.

Where to go

• Install — add the library, build the native part.
• Your first node — a program the BEAM can call, in one page.
• Being called — publish the node, accept what arrives.
• Reading messages — shapes, values and keys, without casts.
• API reference — every type and method.

What it does not do

Links, monitors and exit signals reach the node but are not modelled; distribution compression and TLS are not implemented. The README keeps the full list.