How would you add capabilities to Erlang without making a new language? [closed]

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I was wondering how someone would go about adding Capability-based security to Erlang without making it into a new language and preserving maximum backwards compatibility on the application side?

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If you really are interested in this you should read the Master's thesis by Gustaf Naeser on Safe Erlang