The Node.js Community is Quietly Changing the Face of Open Source If you consider the number of packages on pypi, npm, and rubygems, and the release dates of python (1991), ruby (1995) and node.js (2009), it looks a lot like those communities are getting new packages at the following rates, per year: python: 29,720 packages / 22 years = 1351 packages per year ruby: 54,385 packages / 18 years = 302