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As opposed to your in-house code which is vulnerability free?

The issue isn’t vulnerability's, it’s dependency hell where all your packages are constantly fighting each other for specific versions. Although some languages handle this better than others.

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In house code could very well have many fewer vulnerabilities, as you only write exactly the functionality you need, vs pulling a large dependency and only using a small percentage of the API.

> pulling a large dependency and only using a small percentage of the API.

This is normally a direct result of trying to limit the number of dependencies. People are much more able to use small, focused dependencies that solve specific problems well if you have a policy that permits large numbers of dependencies.

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