r/rust
The Rust Programming Language
Founded December 2010 · Public — anyone can post
A place for all things related to the Rust programming language—an open-source systems language that emphasizes performance, reliability, and productivity.
Members
424,382
424K
Online now
—
not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
9.8
from the last 100 posts, spanning 10.1 days
Comments per post
16.9
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+0.8%
+3.2K members · ≈25d
Promo tolerance
—
not assessed yet
Last post
Sep 30
sampled Sep 30
Distinct posters
89%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Aug 21 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
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r/rust — frequently asked
How many members does r/rust have?
r/rust has 424,382 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 30. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/rust growing?
Over the last ≈25 days r/rust changed by +0.8% — a gain of 3.2K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/rust?
Around 9.8 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 10.1 days, averaging 16.9 comments per post. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/rust created?
r/rust was founded in December 2010 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Who posts in r/rust?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 89% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 30. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/rust?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/rust yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.
How do I monitor r/rust for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/rust into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/rust's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/rust's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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