title: Open source and cross platform application
body: <p>I would like to know what would be the best programming languages to develop an open source that can work on mainly windows and mac.</p>
  
  <p>any person should be able to change the source code if he/she wanted to without the need to recompile it. this is to allow further development and bug fixing.</p>
  
  <p>The application does not require a massive computational resources and it would have a GUI.</p>
  
  <p>what would you recommend?</p>
  
  <p>the only thing i have in mind is to do the application using matLab. any other choice?</p>
  
  <p>Many thanks for your feedback,</p>