Programming subreddits
We found 185 active programming subreddits: communities with at least one new post a day on average in September 2026, ranked by members. The largest is r/programming with 6.93M members. The busiest is r/SideProject, with 29,983 posts last month. In 7 of the 178 we could measure, a brand-new account's post usually stays up: they remove 17% or fewer of posts from accounts under a week old.
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- r/programming6.93M members
- r/SideProject29,983 posts in September 2026
- r/micro_saas+481% members in 12 months
- r/godot16% of new-account posts removed
All active programming subreddits, by members
| # | Subreddit | Members | Posts / month | Member growth, 12 mo | Median author age | Women | Posts with a reply | New-account posts removed | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | r/programming↗Computer Programming | 6.93M | 835 | +2% | 30 | 10% | 74% | 89% | Yes |
| 2 | r/ProgrammerHumor↗For anything funny related to programming and software development. | 4.77M | 902 | +3% | 28 | 15% | 89% | 92% | Yes |
| 3 | r/learnprogramming↗A subreddit for all questions related to programming in any programming language (Contributions are only allowed in English!). | 4.42M | 1,568 | +4% | 26 | 16% | 64% | 38% | No |
| 4 | r/webdev↗A community dedicated to all things web development: both front-end and back-end. For more design-related questions, try /r/web_design. | 3.32M | 2,789 | +7% | 28 | 14% | 84% | 99% | Yes |
| 5 | r/javascript↗Chat about javascript and javascript related projects. Yes, typescript counts. Please keep self promotion to a minimum/reasonable level. | 2.45M | 424 | +2% | 29 | 9% | 84% | 81% | Yes |
| 6 | r/gamedev↗The subreddit covers various game development aspects, including programming, design, writing, art, game jams, postmortems, and marketing. It serves as a hub for game creators to discuss and share the | 2.08M | 2,108 | +7% | 27 | 14% | 92% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 7 | r/linux↗Welcome to /r/Linux! This is a community for sharing news about Linux, interesting developments and press. If you're looking for tech support, /r/Linux4Noobs and /r/linuxquestions are friendly commu | 1.93M | 1,429 | +10% | 29 | 10% | 86% | 96% | Yes |
| 8 | r/developersIndia↗A wholesome community made by & for software & tech folks in India. Have a doubt? Ask it out. | 1.62M | 9,995 | +12% | 24 | 19% | 41% | 99% | Yes |
| 9 | r/Python↗The largest Python community for Reddit! Stay up to date with the latest news, packages, and meta information relating to the Python programming language. --- If you have questions or are new to Pyt | 1.52M | 448 | +8% | 27 | 10% | 83% | 80% | No |
| 10 | r/learnpython↗Subreddit for posting questions and asking for general advice about all topics related to learning python. | 1.06M | 555 | +10% | 26 | 14% | 85% | 33% | No |
| 11 | r/web_design↗Web Design | 981K | 147 | +5% | 28 | 16% | 90% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 12 | r/SideProject↗r/SideProject is a subreddit for sharing and receiving constructive feedback on side projects. | 877K | 29,983 | +68% | 28 | 15% | 25% | 77% | Yes |
| 13 | r/unixporn↗Submit screenshots of all your *NIX desktops, themes, and nifty configurations, or submit anything else that will make ricers happy. Maybe a server running on an Amiga, or a Thinkpad signed by Bjarne | 670K | 949 | – | 23 | 11% | 82% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 14 | r/coding↗Fuck /u/spez. | 648K | 102 | +5% | 30 | 10% | 40% | 100% | Yes |
| 15 | r/HowToHack↗Welcome! This is your open hacker community designed to help you on the journey from neophyte to veteran in the world of underground skillsets. Ask, Answer, Learn. Visit us on discord @ https://dis | 615K | 574 | +14% | 24 | 14% | 66% | Min. age/karma | No |
| 16 | r/devops↗Everything DevOps | 519K | 824 | +19% | 32 | 10% | 56% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 17 | r/reactjs↗A community for discussing anything related to the React UI framework and its ecosystem. Join the Reactiflux Discord (reactiflux.com) for additional React discussion and help. | 516K | 405 | +8% | 28 | 10% | 60% | 44% | Yes |
| 18 | r/Unity3D↗A subreddit for News, Help, Resources, and Conversation regarding Unity, the game engine. Do NOT use your phone to take screenshots. Video and photos of computer screens taken by phones are NOT allo | 483K | 1,799 | +12% | 26 | 12% | 83% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 19 | r/Notion↗Your connected workspace for notes, docs, and tasks. This community-run subreddit is all about Notion, the all-in-one productivity app. | 474K | 477 | +11% | 27 | 37% | 71% | 47% | Yes |
| 20 | r/AI_Agents↗A place for discussion around the use of AI Agents and related tools. AI Agents are LLMs that have the ability to "use tools" or "execute functions" in an autonomous or semi-autonomous (also known as | 467K | 3,947 | +107% | 33 | 15% | 91% | Min. age/karma | No |
| 21 | r/leetcode↗Discuss interview prep strategies and leetcode questions. | 463K | 1,241 | +26% | 25 | 19% | 80% | 51% | Yes |
| 22 | r/ClaudeCode↗a community for building, learning, and sharing with claude code. | 458K | 5,357 | – | 34 | 9% | 64% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 23 | r/GameDevelopment↗/r/gamedevelopment is a community for serious discussion about anything related to game development. | 439K | 1,193 | +9% | 27 | 15% | 47% | 53% | Yes |
| 24 | r/rust↗A place for all things related to the Rust programming language—an open-source systems language that emphasizes performance, reliability, and productivity. | 427K | 1,335 | +16% | 28 | 11% | 57% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 25 | r/ExperiencedDevs↗For experienced developers. This community should be specialized subreddit facilitating discussion amongst individuals who have gained some ground in the software engineering world. Any posts or com | 423K | 607 | +29% | 32 | 15% | 100% | Min. age/karma | No |
| 26 | r/java↗News, Technical discussions, research papers and assorted things of interest related to the Java programming language NO programming help, NO learning Java related questions, NO installing or download | 409K | 164 | +9% | 28 | 10% | 87% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 27 | r/ChatGPTCoding↗r/ChatGPTCoding is a community for building, learning, and experimenting with AI-assisted coding. Share workflows, questions, technical lessons, news, and projects about coding, debugging, testing, an | 406K | 596 | +23% | 34 | 9% | 82% | 98% | Yes |
| 28 | r/programminghorror↗Share strange or straight-up awful code. | 395K | 71 | +5% | 27 | 12% | 78% | 66% | Yes |
| 29 | r/vibecoding↗fully give in to the vibes. forget that the code even exists. | 383K | 5,739 | +326% | 32 | 10% | 37% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 30 | r/golang↗Ask questions and post articles about the Go programming language and related tools, events etc. | 381K | 487 | +15% | 30 | 8% | 71% | 38% | Yes |
Show all 185 subreddits
| # | Subreddit | Members | Posts / month | Member growth, 12 mo | Median author age | Women | Posts with a reply | New-account posts removed | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 | r/godot↗new-account friendlyThe official subreddit for the Godot Engine. Meet your fellow game developers as well as engine contributors, stay up to date on Godot news, and share your projects and resources with each other. | 380K | 3,681 | +31% | 27 | 13% | 75% | 16% | Yes |
| 32 | r/revancedapp↗Continuing the legacy of Vanced | 368K | 442 | +17% | 26 | 14% | 75% | Approved only | Yes |
| 33 | r/cpp↗Discussions, articles and news about the C++ programming language or programming in C++. | 367K | 225 | +11% | 27 | 10% | 73% | 89% | Yes |
| 34 | r/Frontend↗/r/frontend is a subreddit for front end web developers who want to move the web forward or want to learn how. If you're looking to find or share the latest and greatest tips, links, thoughts, and dis | 353K | 349 | +11% | 29 | 15% | 21% | 100% | Yes |
| 35 | r/node↗Unofficial Node.js subreddit. Discuss Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, and anything else in the Node.js ecosystem! | 352K | 340 | +10% | 29 | 8% | 20% | 100% | Yes |
| 36 | r/csharp↗All about the object-oriented programming language C#. | 330K | 281 | +9% | 30 | 9% | 76% | 27% | Yes |
| 37 | r/docker↗Docker is an open-source project to easily create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers from any application. The same container that a developer builds and tests on a laptop can run at sc | 323K | 127 | +12% | 32 | 7% | 75% | 75% | No |
| 38 | r/Wordpress↗The place for news, articles and discussion regarding WordPress, the open source software. Wordpress.com-related questions should be posted to https://wordpress.com/forums/. | 319K | 620 | +14% | 30 | 20% | 86% | 46% | Yes |
| 39 | r/learnjavascript↗This subreddit is for anyone who wants to learn JavaScript or help others do so. Questions and posts about frontend development in general are welcome, as are all posts pertaining to JavaScript on t | 316K | 150 | +9% | 28 | 13% | 75% | 31% | No |
| 40 | r/PowerShell↗PowerShell is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, and macOS) automation tool and configuration framework optimized for dealing with structured data (e.g. JSON, CSV, XML, etc.), REST APIs, and object mod | 310K | 122 | +8% | 33 | 7% | 71% | 62% | Yes |
| 41 | r/PinoyProgrammer↗Community of Pinoy programmers to share ideas, projects, job vacancies and socialize with fellow programmers. | 296K | 287 | +4% | 26 | 32% | 88% | 42% | Yes |
| 42 | r/androiddev↗News for Android developers with the who, what, where, when and how of the Android community. News / Articles / Talks / Tools / Open source! | 296K | 764 | +12% | 26 | 10% | 79% | 94% | Yes |
| 43 | r/unrealengine↗Unreal Engine | 293K | 508 | – | 26 | 11% | 69% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 44 | r/SQL↗The goal of /r/SQL is to provide a place for interesting and informative SQL content and discussions. | 292K | 298 | +14% | 30 | 15% | 57% | 66% | Yes |
| 45 | r/badUIbattles↗Welcome to r/badUIbattles! This community is for bad UI design! | 273K | 56 | +7% | 25 | 18% | 96% | 36% | Yes |
| 46 | r/linuxadmin↗users voted | 258K | 188 | +10% | 34 | 8% | 47% | 91% | Yes |
| 47 | r/dotnet↗.NET Community, if you are using C#, VB.NET, F#, or anything running with .NET... you are at the right place! | 246K | 365 | +12% | 32 | 8% | 96% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 48 | r/C_Programming↗The subreddit for the C programming language | 241K | 246 | +16% | 26 | 11% | 92% | 29% | Yes |
| 49 | r/AskProgramming↗Ask questions about programming. | 237K | 241 | +21% | 28 | 12% | 86% | Min. age/karma | No |
| 50 | r/vscode↗A subreddit for working with Microsoft's Visual Studio Code | 226K | 373 | +17% | 28 | 10% | 75% | 31% | Yes |
| 51 | r/Proxmox↗Welcome to r/Proxmox , the main subreddit regarding the Proxmox hypervisor! | 217K | 266 | +29% | 35 | 7% | 89% | 23% | Yes |
| 52 | r/github↗A subreddit to discuss GitHub's platform, products and features. This is not the place to ask about projects that are hosted on GitHub. Not affiliated with GitHub, Inc. Please note that r/git exists a | 217K | 308 | +31% | 27 | 13% | 73% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 53 | r/AZURE↗Join us in discord here: https://aka.ms/azurediscord. | 217K | 476 | +14% | 33 | 9% | 59% | 21% | Yes |
| 54 | r/RASPBERRY_PI_PROJECTS↗All things Raspberry Pi and its projects. | 210K | 62 | +15% | 31 | 8% | 40% | 92% | Yes |
| 55 | r/vim↗The place for questions and conversation on the Vim editor | 209K | 41 | +8% | 29 | 8% | 74% | 100% | Yes |
| 56 | r/iOSProgramming↗A subreddit to discuss, share articles, code samples, open source projects and anything else related to iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, or visionOS development. | 208K | 655 | +20% | 28 | 10% | 88% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 57 | r/PHP↗Share and discover the latest news about the PHP ecosystem and its community. Please respect r/php's rules. | 205K | 200 | +9% | 32 | 8% | 75% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 58 | r/indiehackers↗IndieHackers is a subreddit focused on people who bootstrap their way to success by building products. | 198K | 3,063 | +64% | 28 | 13% | 3% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 59 | r/learnjava↗Resources for learning Java | 197K | 111 | +9% | 25 | 14% | 100% | 59% | No |
| 60 | r/reactnative↗A community for learning and developing native mobile applications using React Native by Facebook. | 190K | 405 | +13% | 27 | 9% | 59% | 38% | Yes |
| 61 | r/typescript↗TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript development. TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JavaScript. | 187K | 187 | +12% | 31 | 8% | 29% | 100% | Yes |
| 62 | r/FlutterDev↗A community for the publishing of news and discussion about Flutter. | 184K | 381 | +12% | 27 | 9% | 59% | 41% | Yes |
| 63 | r/ReverseEngineering↗A moderated community dedicated to all things reverse engineering. | 183K | 180 | +11% | 29 | 10% | 45% | 46% | Yes |
| 64 | r/nextjs↗Next.js is a React framework for building full-stack web applications | 176K | 238 | +19% | 28 | 8% | 68% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 65 | r/unity↗Unity is the ultimate entertainment development platform. Use Unity to build high-quality 3D and 2D games and experiences. Deploy them across mobile, desktop, VR/AR, consoles or the Web and connect wi | 176K | 665 | – | 26 | 13% | 54% | 56% | Yes |
| 66 | r/SoftwareEngineering↗Software Engineering | 175K | 336 | +12% | 29 | 15% | 66% | 100% | Yes |
| 67 | r/django↗News and links for the Django community. | 167K | 160 | +8% | 28 | 8% | 62% | 79% | Yes |
| 68 | r/css↗A community for discussing about CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), Web Design and surrounding relevant topics. Feel free to discuss, ask questions, share projects and do other things related to CSS here. | 166K | 214 | +17% | 28 | 14% | 69% | 25% | Yes |
| 69 | r/softwaredevelopment↗Software development methodologies, techniques, and tools. Not to be confused with programming. Covering Agile, RUP, Waterfall, Crystal, Extreme Programming, Scrum, Lean, Kanban and more. | 166K | 451 | +34% | 30 | 15% | 14% | 100% | No |
| 70 | r/neovim↗Neovim is a hyperextensible Vim-based text editor. Learn more at neovim.io. | 166K | 269 | +20% | 28 | 8% | 78% | 96% | Yes |
| 71 | r/react↗The (unofficial) React.js subreddit for all things React! | 159K | 217 | +16% | 28 | 11% | 48% | 32% | Yes |
| 72 | r/pythontips↗A place to get a quick fix of python tips and tricks to make you a better Pythonista. | 150K | 51 | +6% | 27 | 11% | 17% | 83% | No |
| 73 | r/DeepSeek↗Unravel the mystery of AGI with curiosity. Answer the essential question with long-termism. We are an unofficial community. | 148K | 1,401 | +88% | 30 | 15% | 72% | 32% | Yes |
| 74 | r/Kalilinux↗Dedicated to Kali Linux, a complete re-build of BackTrack Linux, adhering to Debian's development standards with an all-new infrastructure. | 144K | 73 | +13% | 23 | 9% | 59% | 100% | Yes |
| 75 | r/PLC↗This sub is dedicated to discussion and questions about Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs): "an industrial digital computer that has been ruggedized and adapted for the control of manufacturing pro | 143K | 560 | +21% | 31 | 8% | 77% | 23% | Yes |
| 76 | r/swift↗Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns. | 143K | 156 | +9% | 28 | 10% | 52% | 89% | Yes |
| 77 | r/micro_saas↗What is Micro SaaS? Is virtually a pocket-sized SaaS, meaning that it caters to a very specific niche. It’s usually run by a small team or even two or three people. And since it’s targeting a much | 143K | 2,846 | +481% | 28 | 14% | 50% | 26% | Yes |
| 78 | r/ollama↗ollama | 141K | 568 | +59% | 35 | 8% | 53% | 65% | Yes |
| 79 | r/cs50↗Demanding, but definitely doable. Social, but educational. A focused topic, but broadly applicable skills. CS50 is the quintessential Harvard (and Oxford!) course. | 140K | 172 | +10% | 24 | 20% | 83% | 19% | Yes |
| 80 | r/adventofcode↗Advent of Code is an annual Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. | 136K | 37 | +4% | 28 | 13% | 86% | 18% | Yes |
| 81 | r/vuejs↗Vue.js is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API. | 136K | 112 | +8% | 30 | 8% | 50% | 64% | Yes |
| 82 | r/commandline↗Command line tools (CLIs) uses only typed commands and show text output in an tool called a terminal. TUIs are complete apps that ditch the mouse entirely for fast keybard interaction. They're often f | 134K | 464 | +27% | 31 | 9% | 100% | 25% | Yes |
| 83 | r/algorithms↗Computer Science for Computer Scientists | 133K | 40 | +7% | 26 | 12% | – | 98% | No |
| 84 | r/ProgrammingLanguages↗This subreddit is dedicated to the theory, design and implementation of programming languages. | 132K | 294 | +13% | 27 | 13% | 34% | 98% | Yes |
| 85 | r/vitahacks↗Subreddit for all things Vita Homebrew and Hacks | 131K | 239 | +13% | 26 | 11% | 80% | 56% | Yes |
| 86 | r/webhosting↗This is a place to discuss everything related to web and cloud hosting. From shared hosting to bare metal servers, and everything in between. Post reviews of your current and past hosts, post question | 130K | 214 | +13% | 31 | 16% | 70% | 98% | No |
| 87 | r/programminghumor↗Programming Humor | 129K | 168 | +23% | 29 | 13% | 61% | 34% | Yes |
| 88 | r/coolgithubprojects↗Sharing Github projects just got easier! | 129K | 1,307 | +107% | 28 | 9% | 34% | 42% | Yes |
| 89 | r/proceduralgeneration↗new-account friendlyThis subreddit is about everything procedurally generated (media, techniques, ...) | 127K | 324 | +12% | 29 | 10% | 51% | 15% | Yes |
| 90 | r/buildinpublic↗A community for creators, developers, entrepreneurs, and makers to openly share their journey as they build projects in public. Whether you're coding, designing, writing, or launching a business, this | 126K | 3,894 | +299% | 29 | 14% | 41% | 27% | Yes |
| 91 | r/mcp↗The Model Context Protocol is an open standard that enables developers to build secure, two-way connections between their data sources and AI-powered tools | 125K | 1,370 | +68% | 35 | 9% | 54% | 20% | Yes |
| 92 | r/PythonLearning↗Everything about learning the Python programming language. Ask questions, give recommendations, explain concepts, show projects, demo free tools, compare courses, ... | 124K | 443 | +99% | 27 | 16% | 74% | 34% | Yes |
| 93 | r/cpp_questions↗a subreddit for c++ questions and answers | 122K | 230 | +20% | 25 | 12% | 92% | 22% | No |
| 94 | r/softwarearchitecture↗Dive into discussions on designing, structuring, and optimizing software systems. Share insights on architectural patterns, best practices, and real-world experiences. | 121K | 342 | +42% | 34 | 9% | 57% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 95 | r/git↗git | 121K | 240 | +21% | 32 | 10% | 64% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 96 | r/programare↗Comunitatea programatorilor romani de pe Reddit | 117K | 650 | +16% | 27 | 24% | 88% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 97 | r/tryhackme↗Level up your cyber security skills with hands-on hacking challenges, guided learning paths, and a supportive community of over 8 million users. | 117K | 229 | +32% | 26 | 13% | 43% | 23% | Yes |
| 98 | r/gamemaker↗This subreddit is dedicated to providing programmer support for the game development platform, GameMaker Studio. GameMaker Studio is designed to make developing games fun and easy. Coders can take adv | 113K | 248 | +13% | 24 | 13% | 70% | 40% | Yes |
| 99 | r/laravel↗Laravel is a free and open-source PHP web framework created by Taylor Otwell. Laravel features expressive, elegant syntax - freeing you to create without sweating the small things. | 111K | 80 | +9% | 30 | 8% | 82% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 100 | r/programmingmemes↗You know...for memes... about programming... | 111K | 42 | +24% | 29 | 15% | 63% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 101 | r/javahelp↗General subreddit for helping with **Java** code. | 111K | 69 | +6% | 24 | 15% | 96% | 55% | No |
| 102 | r/LangChain↗LangChain enables every company to own their intelligence. Control, govern, and compound intelligence with an open agent engineering ecosystem. | 109K | 381 | +40% | 30 | 11% | 52% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 103 | r/Kotlin↗Discussion about Kotlin, a statically typed programming language for the JVM, Android, JavaScript, and native. | 109K | 104 | +10% | 29 | 9% | 55% | 23% | Yes |
| 104 | r/CodingHelp↗Join our discord server: https://discord.gg/r-codinghelp-359760149683896320 | 109K | 65 | +15% | 22 | 20% | 94% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 105 | r/ProgrammingBuddies↗Find active programming buddies, mentors, mentees, and study partners. Include timezone, stack, experience, and goal in buddy-finding posts. | 106K | 477 | +24% | 23 | 19% | 62% | 61% | No |
| 106 | r/bash↗A place for learners, experts, enthusiasts and maintainers of all things related to BASH. | 105K | 92 | +27% | 32 | 9% | 70% | 71% | Yes |
| 107 | r/webscraping↗The first rule of web scraping is... do not talk about web scraping. But if you must, you've come to the right place ••• read the sub rules before posting ••• check the community bookmarks below for a | 104K | 211 | +34% | 28 | 12% | 55% | 98% | Yes |
| 108 | r/hackers↗This subreddit is dedicated to the most interesting recent and historical hacks. Our topics do not need to be technical. We require detailed information in all posts. We are not a place to ask | 103K | 153 | +25% | 25 | 24% | 22% | 99% | Yes |
| 109 | r/rstats↗A subreddit for all things related to the R Project for Statistical Computing. Questions, news, and comments about R programming, R packages, RStudio, and more. | 103K | 77 | +8% | 29 | 21% | 62% | 31% | Yes |
| 110 | r/termux↗Termux is a top-notch terminal emulator and Linux environment application for Android OS. In this official community of the project on Reddit we share our configurations, useful scripts, program, expe | 101K | 336 | +40% | 25 | 11% | 74% | 23% | Yes |
| 111 | r/ADHD_Programmers↗Users are important! Without users, reddit would be little more than chunks of code on a server. We love reddit! We hope to make it a better place for everyone! | 100K | 205 | +20% | 31 | 30% | 69% | 21% | Yes |
| 112 | r/FPGA↗A subreddit for programmable hardware, including topics such as: * FPGA * CPLD * Verilog * VHDL | 98K | 306 | +28% | 26 | 11% | 73% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 113 | r/GraphicsProgramming↗A subreddit for everything related to the design and implementation of graphics rendering code. | 97K | 311 | +30% | 28 | 12% | 62% | 18% | Yes |
| 114 | r/ruby↗Celebrate the weird and wonderful Ruby programming language with us! | 95K | 110 | +5% | 32 | 9% | 52% | 72% | Yes |
| 115 | r/bugbounty↗A place to discuss bug bounty and responsible disclosure. Share write-ups, tools, blog posts, and news, ask questions, and give feedback on issues facing the bug bounty community. | 94K | 342 | +35% | 25 | 12% | 84% | 34% | Yes |
| 116 | r/flask↗Flask is a Python micro-framework for web development. Flask is easy to get started with and a great way to build websites and web applications. | 94K | 31 | +3% | 28 | 8% | – | 45% | Yes |
| 117 | r/reinforcementlearning↗Reinforcement learning is a subfield of AI/statistics focused on exploring/understanding complicated environments and learning how to optimally acquire rewards. Examples are AlphaGo, clinical trials & | 91K | 193 | +30% | 26 | 11% | 49% | 22% | Yes |
| 118 | r/Database↗Database | 91K | 124 | +27% | 31 | 12% | 43% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 119 | r/emacs↗The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor. | 91K | 191 | +13% | 31 | 9% | 87% | 25% | Yes |
| 120 | r/LaTeX↗LaTeX | 90K | 140 | +21% | 26 | 16% | 73% | 49% | Yes |
| 121 | r/Pentesting↗Penetration testing (or pen testing) is a security exercise where a cyber-security expert attempts to find and exploit vulnerabilities in a computer system. The purpose of this simulated attack is to | 90K | 221 | +36% | 28 | 10% | 62% | 25% | Yes |
| 122 | r/PostgreSQL↗The home of People, Postgres, Data on the Front Page of the Internet. Join us for lively discussion about PostgreSQL and related technologies. Help us build the community, the people and the technolog | 89K | 106 | +29% | 32 | 9% | 90% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 123 | r/webdesign↗A community dedicated to webdesign. | 89K | 1,126 | +79% | 30 | 21% | 37% | 80% | Yes |
| 124 | r/haskell↗The Haskell programming language community. Daily news and info about all things Haskell related: practical stuff, theory, types, libraries, jobs, patches, releases, events and conferences and more... | 89K | 60 | +5% | 28 | 12% | 71% | – | Yes |
| 125 | r/agile↗Join us at https://agilewatercooler.com | 88K | 174 | +12% | 36 | 21% | 53% | 42% | Yes |
| 126 | r/INAT↗A subreddit created to bring together like-minded creatives for the purpose of collaboration, networking, and gaining experience in team-based development. | 88K | 1,507 | +28% | 24 | 18% | 51% | Min. age/karma | No |
| 127 | r/codingbootcamp↗A subreddit dedicated to questions and discussions about coding bootcamps. | 88K | 85 | +16% | 30 | 28% | 28% | 98% | Yes |
| 128 | r/redditdev↗A subreddit for discussion of Reddit's API and Reddit API clients. | 87K | 67 | +9% | 27 | 15% | 73% | 20% | No |
| 129 | r/Terraform↗Terraform discussion, resources, and other HashiCorp news. | 86K | 90 | +18% | 33 | 7% | 73% | 68% | Yes |
| 130 | r/webdevelopment↗Community for discussions about web development | 85K | 314 | +69% | 29 | 15% | 40% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 131 | r/matlab↗Official MATLAB subreddit | 84K | 58 | +15% | 24 | 16% | 68% | 24% | Yes |
| 132 | r/arch↗new-account friendlySubreddit for Arch Linux - Ask questions, discuss, get support, flex your config/rice and more about Arch Linux here. | 82K | 402 | +89% | 24 | 13% | 74% | 13% | Yes |
| 133 | r/ansible↗Automation for the People! A Subreddit dedicated to fostering communication in the Ansible Community, includes Ansible, AWX, Ansible Galaxy, ansible-lint, Molecule, etc. | 81K | 51 | +11% | 34 | 7% | 71% | – | Yes |
| 134 | r/FreeCodeCamp↗This is the official subreddit for the freeCodeCamp.org community. Learn to code for free together with millions of other people around the world. | 79K | 50 | +16% | 28 | 18% | 75% | 42% | Yes |
| 135 | r/RPGMaker↗new-account friendlyThis is a subreddit focused on discussing RPG Maker. This includes any version from 95 to U2U to any of the console titles. | 78K | 838 | +21% | 26 | 22% | 72% | 13% | Yes |
| 136 | r/creativecoding↗For sharing and discussing the use of computer programming as a creative discipline. | 77K | 368 | +45% | 29 | 13% | 22% | 85% | Yes |
| 137 | r/CloudFlare↗Join the Orange Cloud Discord: https://discord.gg/mPBE5QsHA | 77K | 399 | +84% | 30 | 14% | 84% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 138 | r/rails↗A subreddit for discussion and news about Ruby on Rails | 75K | 173 | +7% | 32 | 9% | 65% | 46% | Yes |
| 139 | r/Backend↗For back-end programming discussion. | 71K | 411 | +117% | 28 | 10% | 43% | 59% | Yes |
| 140 | r/learnSQL↗Adventures in the most popular database language | 71K | 169 | +38% | 30 | 21% | 66% | 53% | No |
| 141 | r/Discord_Bots↗Consider joining our [Discord server](https://discord.gg/7TH6vrF) if you need help. | 69K | 150 | +9% | 22 | 21% | 58% | 64% | No |
| 142 | r/HTML↗A place to learn and ask questions on HTML, CSS, and general front end development. Links are only permitted if they are to HTML articles, are relevant, and of good quality. Promotional materials o | 69K | 128 | +16% | 25 | 19% | 76% | 31% | Yes |
| 143 | r/programmingcirclejerk↗Linus is wearing a blue shirt! zomg noSQL u guise! Apple Google Facebook NSA I rewrote "hello world" in ~~Fortran~~ ~~Pascal~~ ~~C~~ ~~Perl~~ ~~Ruby~~ ~~Lisp~~ ~~Haskell~~ ~~Clojure~~ ~~NodeJS~~ ~~ | 68K | 46 | +9% | 28 | 12% | 90% | – | Yes |
| 144 | r/SQLServer↗Everything you need to know about Microsoft SQL from Azure to Fabric, On-Premises to Linux: news, resources, and a community of users ready to answer questions! | 68K | 102 | +12% | 35 | 10% | 74% | 97% | Yes |
| 145 | r/NixOS↗NixOS - Purely functional | 67K | 379 | +46% | 28 | 11% | 78% | 70% | Yes |
| 146 | r/roguelikedev↗A community of active roguelike developers. Learn how to make a roguelike, share your progress, follow what others are creating, and engage in discussions about a broad range of related topics and res | 67K | 130 | +10% | 30 | 9% | 24% | 96% | Yes |
| 147 | r/theprimeagen↗new-account friendlyshare an article, i will react | 65K | 371 | +76% | 33 | 8% | 69% | 11% | Yes |
| 148 | r/vba↗A place for questions and discussion on Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and its integrated development environment (IDE). | 64K | 32 | +5% | 30 | 14% | 87% | – | Yes |
| 149 | r/SwiftUI↗For SwiftUI discussion, questions and showcasing SwiftUI is a UI development framework by Apple that lets you declare interfaces in an intuitive manner. Please keep content related to SwiftUI only. | 64K | 168 | +19% | 29 | 10% | 57% | 21% | Yes |
| 150 | r/Defcon↗The unofficial subreddit of world's largest hacker convention! | 64K | 38 | +19% | 33 | 17% | 76% | 70% | Yes |
| 151 | r/securityCTF↗SecurityCTF : CTF announcements & writeups | 64K | 112 | +17% | 25 | 11% | 40% | 36% | Yes |
| 152 | r/opencodeCLI↗r/opencodeCLI is a community-driven subreddit for sharing resources, discussions, and tips around OpenCode which is a Go + TypeScript open-source CLI TUI for coding assistance. It supports multiple pr | 62K | 648 | +3503% | 32 | 8% | 63% | – | Yes |
| 153 | r/youtubedl↗yt-dlp and its predecessor youtube-dl are command-line programs to download videos from YouTube, as well as many other media streaming websites. We are a community of enthusiasts helping each other w | 62K | 147 | +26% | 28 | 14% | 84% | 36% | No |
| 154 | r/Cplusplus↗C++ is a high-level, general-purpose programming language first released in 1985. Modern C++ has object-oriented, generic, and functional features, in addition to facilities for low-level memory manip | 61K | 72 | +19% | 25 | 11% | 75% | 76% | Yes |
| 155 | r/DeveloperJobs↗Software Developer Jobs Please try to limit your own listings to a handful per week. Spammers will be banned without prejudice. | 61K | 863 | +362% | 25 | 17% | 33% | 27% | Yes |
| 156 | r/developers↗Share your knowledge, ask questions, and engage with other members of the community. | 60K | 295 | +92% | 30 | 15% | 85% | 100% | No |
| 157 | r/PythonProjects2↗A place for people who are learning the programming language 'Python' to come and apply their new skills on actual projects, and get feedback. | 60K | 169 | +24% | 25 | 13% | 25% | 33% | Yes |
| 158 | r/redhat↗Discussion for Red Hat and Red Hat technologies! This is NOT an official Red Hat social media channel and is staffed by volunteers. While several are Red Hat employees, their opinions are their own. | 59K | 137 | +18% | 33 | 9% | 68% | 20% | Yes |
| 159 | r/CLI↗A command line interface (CLI) is a text-based interface where you can input commands that interact with a computer's operating system. The CLI operates with the help of the default shell, which is be | 59K | 319 | – | 30 | 9% | 30% | 24% | Yes |
| 160 | r/openwrt↗OpenWrt news, tools, tips and discussion. Related projects, such as DD-WRT, Tomato and OpenSAN, are also on-topic. | 59K | 161 | +27% | 33 | 9% | 54% | 100% | Yes |
| 161 | r/foss↗We are dedicated to the discussion of Free and Open Source Software, or FOSS. | 58K | 608 | +169% | 29 | 13% | 37% | 28% | Yes |
| 162 | r/threejs↗Three.js is a cross-browser JavaScript library and API used to create and display animated 3D computer graphics in a web browser using WebGL/WebGPU | 58K | 515 | +62% | 30 | 10% | 61% | 39% | Yes |
| 163 | r/scala↗Scala | 58K | 58 | +4% | 30 | 9% | 63% | – | Yes |
| 164 | r/osdev↗Operating System Development | 58K | 253 | +42% | 25 | 11% | 70% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 165 | r/AppDevelopers↗All things app development: both front-end and back-end. This includes mobile, web apps and marketing. | 57K | 569 | +85% | 26 | 20% | 41% | 35% | Yes |
| 166 | r/LeetcodeDesi↗A dedicated Leetcode sub for the 🇮🇳 Indian subcontinent :) | 57K | 632 | +189% | 23 | 18% | 73% | 42% | Yes |
| 167 | r/sveltejs↗Svelte is a radical new approach to building user interfaces. Whereas traditional frameworks like React and Vue do the bulk of their work in the browser, Svelte shifts that work into a compile step th | 57K | 97 | +15% | 30 | 8% | 70% | 26% | Yes |
| 168 | r/GameDevelopersOfIndia↗For all the Indians interested or employed in making video games. | 57K | 306 | +11% | 23 | 12% | 100% | 19% | Yes |
| 169 | r/lovable↗Lovable community to share builds, tips, and excitement. | 56K | 433 | +110% | 31 | 15% | 55% | 62% | No |
| 170 | r/learnrust↗This subreddit is for asking questions about the programming language Rust | 56K | 139 | +36% | 31 | 13% | 50% | 21% | Yes |
| 171 | r/cprogramming↗A Subreddit dedicated to the C programming language. Everything related to C is welcome here. | 55K | 129 | +28% | 27 | 12% | 66% | 24% | Yes |
| 172 | r/linuxbrasil↗new-account friendlyComunidade Brasileira de Entusiastas de Linux | 54K | 665 | +103% | 26 | 12% | 89% | 12% | Yes |
| 173 | r/SpringBoot↗This is the place to discuss all things Spring and Spring Boot - from dependency injection and AOP to creating production-ready apps with ease. Whether you're a beginner exploring Spring or a pro divi | 53K | 151 | +27% | 26 | 11% | 55% | 86% | Yes |
| 174 | r/PowerApps↗A community dedicated to Microsoft PowerApps. | 52K | 128 | +26% | 32 | 18% | 89% | 25% | Yes |
| 175 | r/angular↗Angular is a web framework that empowers developers to build fast, reliable applications. | 52K | 88 | +14% | 30 | 9% | 71% | 35% | Yes |
| 176 | r/programiranje↗new-account friendlyDiskusije, deljenje sadržaja na temu programiranja i svega što ima veze sa istim. | 50K | 455 | +22% | 27 | 20% | 76% | 14% | Yes |
| 177 | r/developer↗Where professional developers come to talk about what it takes to be a great software developer. Job posts welcome. | 49K | 102 | +47% | 28 | 16% | 64% | 96% | Yes |
| 178 | r/Firebase↗Community supported discussions on Google's Firebase platform. | 49K | 42 | +18% | 27 | 9% | 60% | 25% | Yes |
| 179 | r/RStudio↗IDE for the statistical programming language R and graphics | 48K | 44 | +13% | 26 | 34% | 79% | 22% | Yes |
| 180 | r/Gentoo↗The place to find relevant information on Gentoo Linux | 48K | 253 | +36% | 26 | 13% | 85% | Min. age/karma | Yes |
| 181 | r/activedirectory↗A community about Microsoft Active Directory, Entra ID, and other identity-related products and integrations. Posts about specific products should be short and sweet and not just glorified ads. Plea | 47K | 82 | +32% | 36 | 7% | 95% | 20% | Yes |
| 182 | r/rust_gamedev↗The Rust programming language has a powerful type system and provides safety without a garbage collector. This makes it suitable for game programming, where both performance and code maintenance are o | 46K | 71 | +9% | 30 | 13% | 40% | 18% | Yes |
| 183 | r/scrum↗Scrum is an iterative and incremental agile software development framework for managing product development. | 46K | 78 | +15% | 34 | 25% | 66% | 28% | Yes |
| 184 | r/CodingJobs↗Find your next programming job here. This community is for coders, by coders, to share and discover opportunities in tech, from entry-level to senior roles. | 46K | 258 | +72% | 25 | 16% | 24% | 38% | Yes |
| 185 | r/codeforces↗Codeforces is a website that hosts competitive programming contests. It is maintained by a group of competitive programmers from ITMO University led by Mikhail Mirzayanov. This subreddit is dedicated | 45K | 366 | +71% | 21 | 17% | 80% | 32% | Yes |
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How this list is built
Subreddits are grouped into topics by what their posts are about; this list holds the programming group. We include subreddits that are safe for work and had at least 30 new posts in September 2026, about one a day.
Members is Reddit's subscriber count; growth compares it with a year earlier. Posts with a reply is the share of posts that got at least one comment over the last three months. Median author age and women are estimated from what authors say about themselves, and shown only when enough of them did. New-account posts removed is the share of posts from accounts younger than 7 days that were removed; communities at or below 17% are marked new-account friendly. Min. age/karma means the subreddit asks for a minimum account age or karma before you can post.
The list is rebuilt every month from public Reddit posts and comments. Data and CSV are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with a link to this page.
Programming subreddits: common questions
What is the biggest programming subreddit?
r/programming, with 6.93M members in September 2026. Next are r/ProgrammerHumor (4.77M) and r/learnprogramming (4.42M).
Which programming subreddits are the most active?
By posts in September 2026: r/SideProject (29,983 posts), r/developersIndia (9,995 posts) and r/vibecoding (5,739 posts).
Which programming subreddits can a new account post in?
r/godot (16% of new-account posts removed), r/proceduralgeneration (15% of new-account posts removed) and r/arch (13% of new-account posts removed). They ask for no minimum karma or account age, and most posts from accounts under a week old stay up.
How often is this list updated?
Every month, when we rebuild our subreddit data. This version uses data for September 2026. Member counts come from Reddit; activity, removals and who writes come from public Reddit posts and comments.
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