Thanks for the informative reply. I'll have to try the BetterC mode. Scala Native allows you to do all the low-level stuff in the syntax of Scala with Java and

Thanks for the informative reply. I'll have to try the BetterC mode. Scala Native allows you to do all the low-level stuff in the syntax of Scala with Java and C libs available that logically work at that level. Obviously, JVM-dependent libs will not work when you're bit banging with Scala Native. I just picked up the, "Systems Programming with Scala Native" book, which is promising for what I want to do. I just don't have any experience with it on real systems project yet...