Last week I benchmarked four web frameworks and found that BlackSheep is 2x faster than FastAPI. A Rust-based server and JSON serializer pushed Python within striking distance of Go. Impressive numbers.
I always felt like JavaScript and Go are the alternative languages for Python — I wouldn't compare Python to Rust or Zig. So when I keep seeing Gin vs Elysia benchmarks, I wanted to throw Python into the mix. FastAPI says it's fast right in the name — let's find out.