> The features this offers over the popular requests library do not seem to require httpx to be a competitor Yes it has to be. Requests is not as great as ever

> The features this offers over the popular requests library do not seem to require httpx to be a competitor Yes it has to be. Requests is not as great as everyone thinks it is. It's API is simple, sure, but when you need more advanced features (doesn't even support HTTP/2 AFAIK) like timeouts, proper exception handling (which you cannot do in requests)) it actually sucks. httpx is a far superior library already!