SpaCy v2.2

Huggingface are doing a great job keeping transformers moving quickly, so we already have some catching up to do. We need to update the wrapper so it works with the new version. I also want to check out Tensorflow 2, and build a Thinc wrapper for it.

So probably not directly related to core SpaCy itself.

We haven't had to fund-raise, so our company performance has actually been a bit under-the-radar. But I can assure you everything's been going well, and most people would be surprised at the numbers. We've been profitable since day one, but this year we've been making enough to hire three more full-time developers: https://explosion.ai/about .

Our revenue all comes from our annotation tool Prodigy: https://prodi.gy . Prodigy's very popular, we have a few thousand users in total. There aren't many alternative tools that are scriptable like Prodigy is, and annotation is something that has to be done on almost every project. Even if you don't need to annotate training data (e.g. if you're training on click data or something), you'll usually want to do small annotation tasks to do error analysis and understand your performance.