Jim Hugunin

Jim Hugunin is a <a href="/facts/Software/RP79lVSW">software</a> programmer who created the <a href="/facts/Python_language/YbuGqofa">Python</a> programming language extension Numeric (ancestor to <a href="/facts/NumPy/T6FnhWWD">NumPy</a>), and later created Python implementations for the <a href="/facts/Java_Platform/fpn6x8WL">Java Platform</a> (<a href="/facts/Jython/BPsxEwnT">Jython</a>) and for <a href="/facts/Microsoft/nGIDDXdx">Microsoft</a> <a href="/facts/.NET_platform/J6QDAUhP">.NET platform</a> (<a href="/facts/IronPython/lpXuCulA">IronPython</a>); he has also co-designed the <a href="/facts/AspectJ/0ctawTQj">AspectJ</a> extension for the <a href="/facts/Java_language/9ScgFyAL">Java</a> programming language. He worked for Microsoft from 2004 to 2010, mainly on <a href="/facts/IronPython/lpXuCulA">IronPython</a> and <a href="/facts/Dynamic_Language_Runtime/Py4udCP9">Dynamic Language Runtime</a>.
In October 2010, after Microsoft abandoned the IronPython project, Hugunin left Microsoft to work for <a href="/facts/Google/GT9Sugza">Google</a>.
On his personal website, he described Microsoft's decision regarding IronPython as "a catalyst but not the cause of my leaving the company", and said that having "a healthy relationship with <a href="/facts/Open_source_software/HzTaB8E9">Open Source</a> code and communities" at Microsoft was "possible" but "felt like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole". According to LinkedIn, Jim left Google in May 2013.
In December 2017, Jim launched a beta version of a cloth simulator called Artful Physics.

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Jim Hugunin