Pioneers

Andrey Breslav

Software Engineer

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Computing Atlas. "Andrey Breslav." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/andrey-breslav.

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Computing Atlas. (n.d.). Andrey Breslav. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/andrey-breslav

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@misc{computingatlas-andrey-breslav,
  author = {Computing Atlas},
  title = {Andrey Breslav},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://computing.interactiveatlas.org/pioneers/andrey-breslav},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Andrey Breslav was the founding lead designer of Kotlin at JetBrains, leading its design and development from the project's 2010 start through the Kotlin 1.0 release in 2016; Roman Elizarov later succeeded him as the language's project lead. Breslav described Kotlin's goal as an industrial-strength, fully Java-interoperable language, and said the team named it after Kotlin Island, near Saint Petersburg.

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Kotlin

Source Wikipedia: Kotlin (programming language)

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Wikipedia: Kotlin (programming language)

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Development lead Andrey Breslav has said that Kotlin is designed to be an industrial-strength object-oriented language, a "better language" than Java, and still fully interoperable with Java code, allowing companies to make a gradual migration from Java to Kotlin.

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