Multilingual source code analysis: State of the art and challenges

Source code analysis and manipulation for multilingual types of software applications is an important research topic and its importance is continuously increasing. As utilization of multilingual source code applications is increasing, the demand of multilingual source code analysis is escalating. We discuss the widespread applications of multiple technologies and languages used for development of software systems and difficulties for analyzing the source code of these applications in this paper. We highlight the key challenges and open research problems in the field of multilingual software applications that require the attention of research community.