A pure Python HTTP Library built on free-threaded Python

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Hey HN, I built a small HTTP framework to experiment with free-threaded and wanted to share some observations. Barq is ~500 lines of pure Python, no C extensions, no Rust, no Cython. It uses only the standard library plus Pydantic. Benchmarks (Barq 4 threads vs FastAPI 4 worker processes): - JSON: Barq 10,114 req/s vs FastAPI 5,665 req/s → Barq +79% - DB query: Barq 9,962 req/s vs FastAPI 1,015 req/s → Barq +881% - CPU bound: Barq 879 req/s vs FastAPI 1,231 req/s → FastAPI +29%

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