> Of course, doing it from scratch can be a large undertaking, but I think people often overestimate the effort of writing bespoke software. The build script fo

> Of course, doing it from scratch can be a large undertaking, but I think people often overestimate the effort of writing bespoke software. The build script for my book is not a general-purpose build system for generating book sites. It is literally hard-coded to be used for only one single book on Earth. Replace "book" with "scientific paper" plus a few other terms, and you have basically given a perfect explanation why the vast majority of academic code is so terrible :p