>R7RS libraries and SRFI's will help to some extent, for example hashtable support was more or less plug and play. As Cyclone matures it could potentially support R7RS-large which is going to include quite a bit. But we'll have to see how much of that can handle "real" things like database, graphics, etc.

Good news!

>It would require major changes to the CHICKEN runtime to support native threads, but Cyclone does map out a potential solution

Oh well. Well, at least there is hope.