r/SoftwareEngineering

174k members
r/SoftwareEngineering is a subreddit with 174k members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses frustrating, code, api, distributed, and worst, and they frequently recommend/review ui framework, backend framework, and ergonomic keyboard.

Popular Themes in r/SoftwareEngineering

#1
Advice Requests
: "Advice needed for CS Final Year Project (FYP)"
4 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "How would some go about vetting and finding a software engineer"
3 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "I made a free crm for tennis businesses"
2 posts
#4
Money Talk
: "Software price"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/SoftwareEngineering

#1

Frustrating

3 posts
#2

Code

: "How much do you actually trust Claude Code / Codex / Cursor when they say a feature is done?"
3 posts
#3

Api

2 posts
#4

Distributed

: "true or false: PACELC says a Distributed system still trades latency against consistency even when there is no partition"
2 posts
#5

Worst

1 post
#6

Software Engineering

: "What Software Engineering skills should a Flutter developer build beyond mobile development?"
1 post

Products Discussed in r/SoftwareEngineering

Ui Framework

5 reviews
#1
WPF
4.0★ from 1 review
#2
ASP.NET
4.0★ from 1 review
#3
PySide
4.0★ from 1 review
#1
Spring Boot
4.0★ from 1 review

Member Growth in r/SoftwareEngineering

Yearly
+19k members(12.0%)

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Last updated: September 23, 2026