Excellent deep dive on this beast that had me similarly question my intelligence in the past. As a former academic: the reason sharing source code is/was rare

Excellent deep dive on this beast that had me similarly question my intelligence in the past. As a former academic: the reason sharing source code is/was rare is that it tends to be extremely ugly, and that you don’t get any credit for publishing it where it matters (I. e. tenure committees). To go from something that works to something that you would allow people to see takes about as much time as the original work. (As a side note: I feared for the worst when I saw, among tags like “hacking” and “open source”, the tag “feminism” in the side bar. I enjoyed being wrong.)