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I imagine developers as experienced as the creators of this evaluated the C options and decided C++ was in fact not more of a detriment than a gain.

It has its problems but blindly being anti C++ is silly.

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Hardly blindly.

It's been a C codebase so far. Introducing C++ makes this no longer the case. This has strong implications for both development and deployment. I'm perplexed since there exist battle-tested code generation engines written in C (e.g. dynasm). Correct me if I'm wrong but it doesn't look like asmjit is anything special in that regard.

I can't imagine Joe Armstrong being happy about this.

He might roll over in his grave...

I do agree with you though.

Dynasm depends on Lua for pre-processing into pure C. I guess you could write an Erlang version? There's a Ruby meta-assembler in Safari JavaScriptCore!

Dynasm can be compiled with minilua.c (a single file), which can simply be embedded into the Erlang build.

https://corsix.github.io/dynasm-doc/tutorial.html

"We also considered using dynasm, but found the tooling that comes with asmjit to be better."

https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/2745#issuecomment-6914821...

Already exists, written by none other than Virding himself: https://github.com/rvirding/luerl

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