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Popular Themes in r/programming
#1
Pain & Anger
: "Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy""
18 posts
#2
News
: "CrowdStrike update takes down most Windows machines worldwide"
10 posts
#3
Solution Requests
: "Total Annihilation Graphics Engine"
8 posts
#4
Advice Requests
: "How far should a programming language aware diff go?"
8 posts
#5
Self-Promotion
: "PySkyWiFi: completely free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights"
5 posts
Popular Topics in r/programming
#1
Programming
: "Maybe You're Not Sick of Programming
"
56 posts
#2
Python
: "Python has too many package managers"
12 posts
#3
Security
: "The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security"
11 posts
#4
Java
: "James Gosling, creator of Java, announced that he is retiring"
9 posts
#5
Ai
: "If Ai is too dangerous for open source Ai development, then it's 100 times too dangerous for proprietary Ai development by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, Apple, etc."
9 posts
#6
Javascript
: "How fast is Javascript? Simulating 20,000,000 particles"
8 posts
#7
Web
: "Weird things I learned while writing an x86 emulator"
8 posts
#8
Git
: "Why Facebook abandoned Git "
6 posts
#9
Rust
: "I spent 18 months rebuilding my algorithmic trading in Rust. I’m filled with regret."
5 posts
#10
Coding
: "Coding a Neural Network from Scratch for Absolute Beginners (an intuitive approach, no math or technical terms, no prior knowledge needed except basic python programming)"
5 posts
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Member Growth in r/programming
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+2k members(0.0%)
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+73k members(1.2%)
Yearly
+816k members(14.9%)
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