Even academic papers with open-source code can be infuriating to get working. Usually it's a mess of hidden dependencies, specific versions of global libraries,

Even academic papers with open-source code can be infuriating to get working. Usually it's a mess of hidden dependencies, specific versions of global libraries, hard coded paths, undocumented compiler settings, specific OS versions... Usually, the highly specific experience and knowledge of the author is assumed in the reader...