The language decision should not be based on your anticipated 
contributors, but the application in mind.

Your contributors will come from your user base, and there is no way to 
avoid that. Use what is familiar to your general user base, if anything. 
I have personally contributed to mostly Java stuff, but, have done PHP, 
Perl, C, raw SQL, and other things (JavaScript here on piclist), etc.

For numbers that I would consider to be mostly meaningless, see:
http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=160

Given those numbers, and scanning the list, it seems that most open 
source projects are (in order)
1. Java @ 17811
2. C++ @ 17570
3. C @ 16577
All with very close numbers, then a big drop to
4. PHP @ 13050
Another drop to
5. Perl @ 6430
And then the other 30 or so languages after that.

Rolf


blackcat wrote:
> At the present time to open source community is booming.
> What are the languages of choice for developing open source
> software ?  Is this information available somewhere ?
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> I want to start a project that will attract some contributors and
> I wonder what will happen if I want to use Java or ???
> Is C or C++ overwhelming popular
>
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