Scientific writers do write like programmers code. There are as many as ~15 authors on a paper. The scientific paper has intensive markup, often in Latex. And c

Scientific writers do write like programmers code. There are as many as ~15 authors on a paper. The scientific paper has intensive markup, often in Latex. And collaborative writing like GoogleDocs doesn't work b/c 3 different authors will make changes to the same sentence and you need to be able to see all three changes next to each other. Not to mention figures, equations, etc... MS Word and Libre office aren't powerful enough for scientific writing and aren't universally embraced or consistent across operating systems. Github for writers is desperately needed. Draft doesn't do nearly enough Source: physical science graduate student