While I publish in a field where making source code available is much more common, let me just make a couple of points: * I have never had someone come back to

While I publish in a field where making source code available is much more common, let me just make a couple of points: * I have never had someone come back to criticize my code style. And if they do, so what? I'll block them and not think about it again. I don't need to get my feathers ruffled over this. * Similarly, if someone's trying to replicate my results, and they fail, it's on them to contact me for help. After that it's on me to choose how much effort to put into helping them. But if they don't contact me, or if they don't put in a good faith effort to replicate the results, that's their problem. If they try to publish a failure to replicate without having done that, it's no more valid science than publishing bad science in the first place. Overall, I think most people who stress about publishing code do so because they haven't done it before. I've personally only ever had good consequences from having done so (people picking up the code who would never have done anything with it if it weren't already open source).