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While I see the point the OP is trying to make, I feel the article is not written in a neutral way, with whatever little knowledge of node.js I have.

Isn't Node.js a platform? And JavaScript the language? I looked it up and JavaScript has been around since 1995 (which makes it contemporary to Ruby and Python).

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It's not about language, it's about the module ecosystem. Less Node.js vs Ruby vs Python more npm vs gem vs pip

pip didn't exist in 1991 though. CPAN got mature faster (and it has 120k modules), but such a comparison isn't satisfactory without a curve showing the yearly growth rate.

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