&gt; Will SpaCy&#x27;s fate be different, 10 years down the road?<p>Yes --- because I consolidate my algorithms and delete dead code.  I&#x27;ve probably written five or six times as much code as currently lives in spaCy.<p>I hope by then spaCy will be smaller, not bigger, as we reach a more concise understanding of how to actually solve the problem. For instance, it&#x27;s reasonable to expect the boundary between the POS tagger, parser and entity recogniser to disappear, in the same way that spaCy doesn&#x27;t feature a separate chunker or sentence boundary detector. I read these annotations off the parse tree.