# Why is it reliable to use open source packages for research?

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**Created:** [May 4, 2024, 3:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-it-reliable-to-use-open-source-packages-for-research/113823 "2024-05-04T03:49:28Z")\
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FWIW, I recall an old blog post trying AFL with Julia: [Bugs in Julia with AFL and C-Reduce · maleadt](https://blog.maleadt.net/2018/11/16/julia_bugs/)

As also highlighted in the post, a possible avenue could be a Julia package wrapping [AFL++](https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus)

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