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r/cprogramming↗

Old School C Programming Subreddit

A Subreddit dedicated to the C programming language. Everything related to C is welcome here.

55k subscribers129 posts / mo in Sep 2026109 authors / mosince 2010

r/cprogramming has 55k members (+28% over the last 12 months). It gets about 129 posts a month from 109 people. Top topics: Learning Resources, Programming Languages and IDEs and Editors.

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Size and growth

How r/cprogramming has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+28%in 12 months · +5.7% in 3 months · +2.0% in 1 month
Oct 202655k
Growing55k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/cprogramming

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+25%vs Sep 2025 · +10% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026129
BusierPeaked at 245 in Apr 2022
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/cprogramming

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Learning Resources20%
  2. Programming Languages2.6%
  3. IDEs and Editors1.6%
  4. Learning C++ Programming Projects1.2%
  5. Learning Resources0.7%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Medium
  2. cppreference
  3. GNU Project
  4. Beej's Guides
  5. Substack

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Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research