Take a look at pony-lang.  It&#x27;s sorta like what Rust was once going to be.  It&#x27;s sort of implicitly going for a bare-metal Erlang-shaped thing.<p>There&#x27;s a lot missing, not the least of which is a set of abstractions over the rich primitives which provide simple programming interfaces that don&#x27;t force a lot of the language&#x27;s complexity on you, but if what you want is something that might one day be a really fast Erlangish it&#x27;s probably the front-runner at the moment.<p>I still have high hopes for BEAMJIT existing as a production-grade thing someday.  That way I don&#x27;t have to drop into C in my Erlang applications as often.  Sure BEAMJIT will probably never be as fast, but if it can be good-enough while also not forcing me across the safety boundary to get to that good-enough state... that&#x27;s a huge win.