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You could say the same about distributing docker images for deploying code for non-scientific software as well (and honestly, it may very well be true).

But that doesn't change the fact that it's just way easier to skim a paper and pull a docker image than follow every paper's custom build instructions and software stack.

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Why would build instructions have to be custom? Making a reproducible image should be as easy as getting a docker image