Shoebot is not dead (even if it is getting a bit old), currently working on a new release to sort out a bunch of the tech debt.
https://github.com/shoebot/shoebot
For those into Nodebox1, on the Mac, Karsten's fork is active.
https://github.com/karstenw/nodebox-pyobjc
Plot device is a fork that went in a different direction
https://github.com/plotdevice/plotdevice
EDIT: I should also mention drawbot, the progenitor for all of these is pretty alive these days using a Skia backend
https://www.drawbot.com/