There are much more real-world use cases for reproducible builds than for IPFS. It saves time and money. It's not just academic. Reproducible builds (as in bit

There are much more real-world use cases for reproducible builds than for IPFS. It saves time and money. It's not just academic. Reproducible builds (as in bit-for-bit) means I can trust a (secure) checksum of a binary I downloaded somewhere, let's say from IPFS. This is defense-in-depth, adding another layer of security to prevent sabotage. Reproducibility means the whole system can reliably be built from source and I don't need to manually make sure the system has the correct constellation of implicit dependencies and their version numbers. This saves time and money in deployment and will pay off in a very big way 10 years down the line when that code is still in use somewhere.