[kyberias]

> What happened to VBScript?

Nothing.

  Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.17134.285]
  (c) 2018 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

  C:\Windows\SysWOW64>cscript
  Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
  Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

  Usage: CScript scriptname.extension [option...] [arguments...]

  Options:
   //B         Batch mode: Suppresses script errors and prompts from displaying
   //D         Enable Active Debugging
   //E:engine  Use engine for executing script
   //H:CScript Changes the default script host to CScript.exe
   //H:WScript Changes the default script host to WScript.exe (default)
   //I         Interactive mode (default, opposite of //B)
   //Job:xxxx  Execute a WSF job
   //Logo      Display logo (default)
   //Nologo    Prevent logo display: No banner will be shown at execution time
   //S         Save current command line options for this user
   //T:nn      Time out in seconds:  Maximum time a script is permitted to run
   //X         Execute script in debugger
   //U         Use Unicode for redirected I/O from the console

[Jaruzel]

Internet Explorer also still supports it. You can write a full, albeit basic, application in a text file, rename it as 'whatever.hta' and run it by double clicking on it. It launches in its own window using the IE html control as its form. The MSDN pages have a clone of Notepad.exe as a vbscript .hta as an example.

In some ways it's like the grandparent of Electron or React apps, just a decade too early.

The last .hta I wrote was several years ago - a [mostly] complete clone of 'Active Directory Users & Computers' that anyone could use.

[mysterydip]

To expand, it's still there and used, though Microsoft has pushed Powershell scripts in its place.