r/coding
639k members
r/coding is a subreddit with 639k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and pain & anger, and the community frequently discusses coding, ai, programming, github, and python, and they frequently recommend/review backend framework, ide, and ai tool.
Fuck /u/spez.
Popular Themes in r/coding
#1
Solution Requests
: "Bloom filters: the niche trick behind a 16× faster API | Blog | incident.io"
6 posts
#2
Pain & Anger
: "Developers Are Safe… Thanks to Corporate Red Tape"
3 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "Looking for feedback on an open-source SDK i built called Inspekt."
2 posts
#4
Self-Promotion
: "I built an open-source Windows desktop overlay engine for animated mascots, sprites, GIFs, and HUD-style overlays"
2 posts
#5
Ideas
: "How I built an interactive face-to-photo graph visualization with ReactFlow — Face Gallery (open source)"
1 post
#6
Money Talk
: "GitHub Copilot’s pricing is changing—here’s what it means for your projects"
1 post
#7
News
: "Services in Space: A Story of SOA, Spacecraft, and Bad English"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/coding
#1
Coding
: "Has AI Conquered Coding? (It’s Not So Simple…)"
87 posts
#2
Ai
: "Ai Made My Team Write 21% More Code. The Review Queue Doubled."
61 posts
#3
Programming
: "Top Programming Languages 2025/2026 by Wikipedia Traffic"
25 posts
#4
Github
: "Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits Github and other repositories"
22 posts
#5
Python
: "Modern Python Tooling in 2026: uv, Ruff, pyproject.toml, and a Cleaner Workflow"
15 posts
#6
Code
: "Writing Code was never the bottleneck"
15 posts
#7
Open Source
: "Open-source Python roadmap repo with docs site & notebook support"
14 posts
#8
Development
: "Test Driven Development: Bad Example"
12 posts
#9
Web
: "Web dependencies are broken. Can we fix them?"
11 posts
#10
Security
: "This attack was not aimed at Security engineers who review lockfiles before deploying. It was aimed at the people who type npm install and move on."
10 posts
Products Discussed in r/coding
Backend Framework
5 reviews
#1
ExpressJS
4.0★ from 2 reviews
#2
Fastify
4.0★ from 1 review
#3
NestJS
4.0★ from 1 review
Ide
1 review
#1
Haystack Editor
5.0★ from 1 review
Ai Tool
1 review
#1
Codium-AI
5.0★ from 1 review
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Yearly
+31k members(5.1%)
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Last updated: June 4, 2026