r/AskProgramming

Active

Ask questions about programming.

Members

163,738

as of February 2025

Last post

today

September 27, 2026

Posts (30 days)

100+

Created

2011

March 31, 2011

Total posts

99.4K

archived

Total comments

627.1K

archived

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r/AskProgramming had 163,738 members as of February 2025, the most recent archive crawl of its subscriber count.

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r/AskProgramming was created on March 31, 2011.

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