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What!? It’s being developed by JetBrains, which is headquartered in the Czech Republic - a NATO member!

• nullifidian 7y ago
  It's registered/incorporated in the Czech Republic, but it's a Russian company. Same way Russian search giant Yandex is incorporated in Netherlands.
  • Gaelan 7y ago
    In more concrete terms, of their ~1000 employees, 600 are in St. Petersburg, their largest office by far.
    • pyuser583 7y ago
      Ah. That makes things clear.
• isbvhodnvemrwvn 7y ago
  Kotlin is named after an island protecting the entry to St. Petersburg. While they have some developers in Germany and Czech Republic (plus some remote IIRC), their main development center is in St. Petersburg. I guess they were incorporated in Czech republic due to political issues, but they would still be crippled if they were somehow cut off from their St. Petersburg office.