Second this. Research code is already hard, and with misaligned incentives from the funding agencies and grad school pipelines, it's an uphill battle. Not to me

Second this. Research code is already hard, and with misaligned incentives from the funding agencies and grad school pipelines, it's an uphill battle. Not to mention that professors with an outdated mindset might discourage graduate students from committing too much time to work on scientific code. "We are scientists, not programmers. Coding doesn't advance your career" is often an excuse for that. In my opinion, enforcing standards without addressing this root cause is not gonna fix the problem. Worse, students and early career researchers will bear the brunt of increased workload and code compliance requirements from journals. Big, well-funded labs that can afford a research engineer position is gonna have an edge over small labs that cannot do so.