Atoms as Symbols?

[soup-in-boots]

Initiating a discussion as to whether or not atoms should be treated as symbols in node's system, and vice versa. I feel this is an appropriate convention, and have been using it in my own project. I wish to use erlpack as the ETF communication provider for my epmd transport for my project (otp-js), and it would be nice to have this convention supported outright instead of shimming it.