>Script languages are already highly valued in Enterprises, everywhere -- not by IT, perhaps :),

Yes, I should have qualified: if allowed by IT, they prefer them running on the selected VM:
Rhino, JRuby, Jython vs. Ironpython, IronRuby and the offerings of MS for Ecmascript.

>but by the workers who make Access apps, excel worksheets that mimic apps, and heaven help us, Word Tables, in order to get their work done. VFP has been a sane alternative in the past; and I think Lianja will be a sane alternative in the future.

The uphill battle of a new runtime in IT is the larger stumbling block . I should have phrased it better ;-)
Will be interesting to view an adoption pattern of former vfp users by dev count.

On Lianja - I have not checked the last releases, even though now most of the things
missing last year are in place, if docs are correct.
How successful was porting one of the simple Promatrix-based apps ?

Is there some documentation describing the interleave of different building blocks of Lianja now ?
Did they "just" embed a CPython engine, a JS engine, Webview and so on or take a similar "add-on" route ?
Or create their own parser building something like a common AST delivering a common runtime/variable space ?
How do they handle the differing rules for variable scope/parameters/return values in mixed mode programming ?

Or is it safer to always use their global app model to make objects visible to other source languages ?
Will there be difficulty passing such a foreign object as parameter ?
What happens if you subclass a class/JS-prototype from another language and
plaster on niceties like Python properties or vfp assign-methods ?

While I applaude the drive to finish the product, having an open BEta without even prelim docs
on such structure leaves me just trying to run existing code and micro-bechmarks or
shoot in the dark for edge cases I could otherwise envision at least half of the time.

It seems the best dark horse candidate (of Polarfox, Win/WebRAD, some basics or Delphi/Lazarus): if that is praise.

regards

thomas