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=== Name ===
The name is derived from [[Kotlin Island]], a Russian island in the [[Gulf of Finland]], near [[Saint Petersburg]]. [[Andrey Breslav]], Kotlin's former lead designer, mentioned that the team decided to name it after an island, in imitation of the Java programming language which shares a name with the Indonesian island of [[Java]].<ref>{{Citation |last1=Mobius |title=Андрей Бреслав – Kotlin для Android: коротко и ясно |date=8 January 2015 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU_L2_XGQ9s |access-date=28 May 2017 |archive-date=12 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412075657/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU_L2_XGQ9s |url-status=live}}</ref>
 
=== Development ===