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hot take: #cs academics should be expected not only to publish the full source of the programs that demonstrate their research (I can't believe this still needs to said), but they should also be expected to offer #ReproducibleBuilds of the environments so that the results may be reproduced at a later point in time. "it works on my machine" is no longer a legitimate problem and "I'm self-conscious about the code because its messy" both holds you to a lower standard than undergraduate CS students are held to for their assignments, while holding the reader responsible for reconstructing your research from some small set of source snippets, which amounts to imposing trust in the authority of university discourse, a kind of metaphysics.

taking a few weeks to learn how to use #guix for #ReproducibleResearch should not be too much to ask, knowledge production is mere discourse production when the results cannot be scrutinized beyond a peer review process without a good deal of effort, which we all know that few people have the time for. if you can't be bothered to get it working, then why should your readers be expected to assume that it works?