> Still, for coder-scientists in academic systems that measure success by paper citations, things haven’t changed all that much. This is true. Someone still ne

> Still, for coder-scientists in academic systems that measure success by paper citations, things haven’t changed all that much. This is true. Someone still needs to write code for all the systems and simulations needed to do science. But you don't get much academic credits for building these things. Academic career-wise, much better to run simulations using software others have written, and write papers about that. Then again, being a programmer gives one a good position to leave academia and get a software engineering job.