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Jetbrains hopes that the new language will drive [[IntelliJ IDEA]] sales.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2011/08/why-jetbrains-needs-kotlin/|title=Why JetBrains needs Kotlin|quote=we expect Kotlin to drive the sales of IntelliJ IDEA}}</ref>

== PhilosopyPhilosophy ==

Development lead Andrey Breslav has said that Kotlin is designed to be an industrial strength object-oriented language, be a better language than Java but still be fully interoperable with Java code, allowing companies to make a gradual migration from Java to Kotlin.<ref name="interview">{{cite web | title=JVM Languages Report extended interview with Kotlin creator Andrey Breslav|url=http://zeroturnaround.com/rebellabs/jvm-languages-report-extended-interview-with-kotlin-creator-andrey-breslav/ | author=RebelLabs | website=http://zeroturnaround.com/ | date=April 22, 2013 | accessdate=February 2, 2014 }}</ref>