What's the catch?

[brandonros]

Is this faster than all C/Java/Rust implementations out there?

[squeaky-pl]

Your experience will vary depending on what kind of logic you put there in Python. There definitely exist faster implementations for those 3 languages you mentioned.

You can look here for some 3rd party benchmarks against other languages:

https://github.com/the-benchmarker/web-frameworks
and https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r17&hw=ph&test=plaintext