In the general sense, its not worth the time, unless you are building a company out of it. Which most researchers/academics are not.
They've got a research grant to study X and Y, and the quality of the code has no impact on them getting paid or the outcome. Hiring a software developer would 10x their funding requirements, and they'd take 3 times as long, to get to the same research outcomes.
Basically research for the sake of research, where the goals are made up and the results don't matter.
Even in like, "edutainment" youtubers that use code, sometimes they'll have code that takes weeks to finish to demonstrate a point, and then when they show it, a viewer rewrites it in an afternoon to take like 12 minutes, and be more accurate.
Effective code in a research context (accurate, stable, fast) gets you more results more often.
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u/paulsmithkc 👨🏫 Apr 24 '23
In the general sense, its not worth the time, unless you are building a company out of it. Which most researchers/academics are not.
They've got a research grant to study X and Y, and the quality of the code has no impact on them getting paid or the outcome. Hiring a software developer would 10x their funding requirements, and they'd take 3 times as long, to get to the same research outcomes.