Janice J. Heiss: The Advent of Kotlin: A Conversation with JetBrains' Andrey Breslav. oracle.com, April 2013, abgerufen am 6. Oktober 2018 (englisch): „A new statically typed language, Kotlin, named after a Russian island off the coast of St. Petersburg, where Kotlin's Andrey Breslav and the Kotlin team reside, has recently been getting attention. A brainchild of the highly lauded Czech software development company JetBrains [...]“