Not sure what might have caused that, but AppleScript is definitely alive, well and fully supported in all current versions of macOS. There have been some updates along the way that caused a few older scripts to fail, but all of mine were easily fixed by simply opening it in Script Editor, recompiling and saving.
Also used this code in the terminal. Strange thing here that find only detects Python scripts, but Ruby and Perl files are simple ASCII text. I wonder if it’s just on my local machine or it’s a common thing.
I think {locate "*.py" && locate "*.rb" && locate "*.pl"} | grep [pattern] and then filter the results might be a better solution.
None of the scripting languages listed have gone away but PHP has been removed from macOS Monterey.
macOS Big Sur actually included a small update to Perl and the OS includes more scripts written in Perl than Catalina did.
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