How alive is LiveCode?

[Michael Chean]

I want to write  databased applications to take care of some of the 
pain-points at my current employment.   And if this works
out I'd like to extend it to the full application - which is your normal 
professional billing program.  
I'm using VFP right now and would have no reluctance to continue using it 
if it were still in development.  For ad-hoc reporting
and querying it's the best.  VFP covers all of the bases including report 
writing, a built in db, SQL support (sort of) 
and I can see that with LiveCode I'm going to have to add external tools to 
fill in the gaps. Thanks for the responses.

Mike