For a few months now C++ has had the biggest share of active contributors in open source projects tracked by Open Hub. Each contributor is counted once for ever

For a few months now C++ has had the biggest share of active contributors in open source projects tracked by Open Hub. Each contributor is counted once for every language they have contributed in in the last month. C++ has also most commits and code lines changed in the last month, but I think the number of active contributors most accurately reflects language popularity, that this method defines as willing to contribute in the language. Now one might protest that the project dictates the language to use; fair enough, start a project in Malbolge and see how many contributors you get. Moreover C++ comes only fifth in the number of active projects, after Python, shell script, JavaScript and C. Clearly C++ projects have more active contributors on average than those languages.