Bully for Node, but to compare apples to apples, you should count from when the packaging system was released, not from when the language was released. Node's numbers wouldn't look so good if divided by the number of years since JavaScript was released.
Rubygems dates back to 2003, in which case Ruby's 5,439 packages per year still trails Node's pace but not so dramatically.
Rubygems dates back to 2003, in which case Ruby's 5,439 packages per year still trails Node's pace but not so dramatically.