Fantastic work!<p>* Any plans to strengthen the Scala core lib so one doesn&#x27;t have to reach out to JVM for mundane tasks like I&#x2F;O or threading?<p>* Is there a simple way to use raw C &#x2F; C++ libraries from Scala native?<p>* Is there a <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;search.maven.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;search.maven.org&#x2F;</a> equivalent?