> Very few people care about that. While it may be true that the absolute number of people involved is small compared to the wider tech industry, long-term cod

> Very few people care about that. While it may be true that the absolute number of people involved is small compared to the wider tech industry, long-term code reproducibility is critically important for engineering-heavy industries with long-lived, high consequence physical assets. Think aerospace, nuclear, petrochemical, electrical, and other civil infrastructure. If something in the environment changes and you need to re-analyze the performance of that asset to ensure safety & reliability under the new conditions, the first thing you do is re-run the benchmark cases to verify the answers didn't change from the last time you ran it. If they did, it throws your entire basis for design into question unless you can conclusively resolve the inconsistency.