I’ve been a user of SpaCy since 2016. I haven’t touched it in years and I just picked it up again to develop a new metric for RAG using part of speech coverage.

The API is one of the best ever, and really set the bar high for language tooling.

I’m glad it’s still around and getting updates. I had a bit of trouble integrating it with uv, but nothing too bad.

Thanks to the explosion team for making such an amazing project and keeping it going all these years.

To the new “AI” people in the room: checkout SpaCy, and see how well it works and how fast it chews through text. You might find yourself in a situation where you don’t need to send your data to OpenAI for some small things.

Edit: I almost forgot to add this little nugget of history: one of Huggingfaces first projects was a SpaCy extension for conference resolution. Built before their breakthrough with transformers https://github.com/huggingface/neuralcoref