This is a question near to my heart. I'm not an academic but a practicing systems software engineer. A good chunk of my work is sourcing interesting academic id

This is a question near to my heart. I'm not an academic but a practicing systems software engineer. A good chunk of my work is sourcing interesting academic ideas and trying to turn them into practically useful software. Papers that don't release their source code are often not as reproducible as the authors think. Perhaps there's a bug that the results depend on, perhaps the implementation is very specific to the context the software runs in, perhaps the paper gives _most_ of what you'd need to re-implement but the fine details are missing. I've seen them all. In a very real sense unless the paper has a result that's so compelling I can't ignore it if there's no published source code -- even if it's an obvious prototype! -- I'll pass it by. I'm not alone in that in my line of work. Industry folks might also be more willing to accept prototype code than academic folks, I dunno. Worth consider, I guess, if you're interested in your work crossing the academic/industry boundary smoothly.