r/programming is a subreddit with 6.9M members. The most common kinds of discussions are advice requests and ideas, and the community frequently discusses and they said it couldn't be done, programming, code, done, and ai, and they frequently recommend/review java ide, python ide, and rich text editor.
Computer Programming
Popular Themes in r/programming
#1
Advice Requests
: "Drupal SQL Code-Injection Vulnerability - Why does it still exist?"
1 post
#2
Ideas
: "Ported my C game to WASM, here's everybug that I hit"
1 post
#3
Money Talk
: "What an 8kb Postgres read costs"
1 post
Popular Topics in r/programming
#1
And They Said It Couldn't Be Done
33 posts
#2
Programming
: "Programming as Theory Building, Naur (1985). PDF-link"
28 posts
#3
Code
: "Configuration flags are where software goes to rot"
27 posts
#4
Done
19 posts
#5
Ai
: "Humans Still Beat Ai in the Long Horizon: Revisiting Test-Time Scaling in the Agent Era"
15 posts
#6
Looking For
14 posts
#7
Worst
14 posts
#8
Python
: "Pandas as a reason to learn Python, even if you’re not doing data science"
14 posts
#9
Coding
: "Using wavelets and entropy Coding to analyze code structure"
10 posts
#10
Hate
9 posts
Products Discussed in r/programming
Java Ide
13 reviews
#1
JetBrains
4.8★ from 4 reviews
#2
NetBeans
4.0★ from 2 reviews
#3
Apache
4.0★ from 2 reviews
Python Ide
7 reviews
#1
Thonny
4.0★ from 2 reviews
#2
Visual Studio Code
4.0★ from 2 reviews
#3
PyCharm
5.0★ from 1 review
Rich Text Editor
5 reviews
#1
WYMeditor
4.0★ from 2 reviews
#2
Telerik
3.0★ from 1 review
#3
WMD Editor
4.0★ from 1 review
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Yearly
+112k members(1.6%)
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Last updated: June 17, 2026