Over lockdown I had a bit of a revelation - it was a month until April and .NET Core was being spoken about quite a lot on Twitter, in particular the ability to host it anyhere you could write a bit of C.

Erlang can talk to C code, .NET can talk to C code? Surely some bad things could be possible? I enlisted the help of a friend and set about writing a bridge that would allow a .NET developer to write code against the Erlang back-end in their .NET language of choice (mine being Visual Basic).

It worked! Some of the hacks were glorious, shipping anything using it to production would be grossly irresponsible but it worked!

In this session we'll go over exactly what is needed to host .NET core inside a native application, what the rules of communication with that .NET code are exactly and at the same time we'll look at some of the games we had to play to get this to play well inside the Erlang VM because some of them were so bad they were impressive and it's time they got shared with the world.