Research software code is likely to remain a tangled mess

[vmagnin]

Perhaps only researchers passionate by programming will progress during their career…

@Beliavsky

A general problem is that graduate students, post-docs, and professors are usually rewarded for publications, not their software.

Yes, concerning that problem I made a post in July 2020:

Getting recognition for your research software

As you may now, developing a research software is a hard task that often lacks recognition in the academic world. And even more if it is a rather generalistic tool. But things are slowly changing. This is an interesting paper on that subject : Laura Soito, Lorraine J Hwang, “Citations for Software : Providing Identification, Access and Recognition for Research Software”, International Journal of Digital Curation, Vol 11, No 2 (2016), doi:10.2218/ijdc.v11i2.390. View of Citations for Software: …