r/coding

646k members
r/coding is a subreddit with 646k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses coding, tired, looking for, annoying, and ai, and they frequently recommend/review backend framework, ide, and ai tool.
Fuck /u/spez.

Popular Themes in r/coding

#1
Solution Requests
: "how to get reliable temperature data without sudo powermetrics on Mac?"
11 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "How To Report A Bug So It Actually Gets Fixed"
9 posts
#3
Ideas
: "How I built a syscall tracer that runs at <1% overhead using eBPF — the technical challenges"
9 posts
#4
Opportunities
: "We're organizing a nationwide student hackathon—registrations open July 25!"
3 posts
#5
Pain & Anger
: "I used to love coding. Now "vibe coding" has completely ruined the magic."
2 posts
#6
Self-Promotion
: "Building Groovie, an Advanced Web-Based Drum Machine / Beat Sequencer"
2 posts

Popular Topics in r/coding

#1

Coding

: "I built an open-source prompt toolkit for fixing the mess AI Coding agents leave behind"
11 posts
#2

Tired

7 posts
#3

Looking For

7 posts
#4

Annoying

6 posts
#5

Ai

: "I built an open-source prompt toolkit for fixing the mess Ai coding agents leave behind"
6 posts
#6

Worst

5 posts
#7

Struggling

5 posts
#8

Job

4 posts
#9

Agents

: "I built an open-source prompt toolkit for fixing the mess AI coding Agents leave behind"
4 posts
#10

Api

2 posts

Products Discussed in r/coding

#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

Member Growth in r/coding

Yearly
+31k members(5.0%)

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Last updated: September 2, 2026