These AppleScripts can be precompiled and stored for lightning-fast deployment, or constructed and used on the fly. You'll quickly find yourself taking mere minutes to do things which 'real' programmers would need hours or even days to produce - and all without going near anything as unpleasant as programming code. For example, I recently made a project to find every HTML file within a folder, alter every occurrence of a phrase it found, and upload everything to my Web site afterwards. This took about 5 minutes to create, where users of more conventional tools might have well spent the better part of a day or more. Other projects I've made include a portfolio for my design work, games for my children, an invoice tracking system for my freelance work, software for MacUser's labs testing, useful front-end interfaces for MacUser CDs, a custom word processor, and much more.
Moves can be very fast, but they are done one at a time rather than truly simultaneously.
But for making more free-form projects and applications Director can't really compete with this software Swiss army knife. This has meant that a Windows version of SuperCard has never been produced. IncWell knows how important such a move would be, but this situation will remain for the foreseeable future. This will disappoint someone interested in ways of making PCs work better, but I'm personally not that bothered. I can use SuperCard to perform software magic.