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== History ==
In July 2011 JetBrains unveiled Project Kotlin, which had been under development for a year, a new language for the JVM.<ref name="announce">{{cite web | url=http://www.infoworld.com/d/application-development/jetbrains-readies-jvm-based-language-167875 | publisher=InfoWorld | website=infoworld.com | first=Paul | last=Krill | title=JetBrains readies JVM language Kotlin | date=Jul 22, 2011 | accessdate=February 2, 2014 }}</ref> JetBrains lead Dmitry Jemerov said that most languages did not have the features they were looking for, with the exception of Scala. However, he cited the slow compile time of Scala as an obvious deficiency.<ref name="announce" /> One of the stated goals of Kotlin is to compile as fast as Java. In February 2012, JetBrains open sourced the project under the [[Apache license|Apache 2 license]].<ref name="open source">{{cite web|url=http://adtmag.com/articles/2012/02/22/kotlin-goes-open-source.aspx|title=Kotlin Goes Open Source|first=John|last=Waters|date=February 22, 2012 |accessdate=February 2, 2014|website=ADTmag.com/ |publisher=1105 Enterprise Computing Group}}</ref>
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>
== Philosopy ==
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