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> Is this a thread based server, or does it use an event loop instead?

> No.

Well, which is it ?

Neither, its using netcat + -l flag, which is (possibly) waiting for a connection using blocking networking IO.

It can only accept one connection at a time because of the netcat command being used in a loop

Oh OK.

Well, anyone can write that in a handful of lines in most languages.

Neither.