> Otherwise, Alan is just for disposable apps / throw-away apps / Excel-replacement apps, and for any serious work, I'm eventually going to have to rewrite the

> Otherwise, Alan is just for disposable apps / throw-away apps / Excel-replacement apps, and for any serious work, I'm eventually going to have to rewrite the whole app in something else anyway so I might as well start there first. There's no reason to be so elitist. Disposable applications can become important in business, they're often the duct tape that holds a small or medium sized company together. If they can be written more quickly and with more functionality than in MS Office apps, there's a very legitimate and actually very large use case for Alan.