r/rust
A place for all things related to the Rust programming language—an open-source systems language that emphasizes performance, reliability, and productivity.
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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.
Member growth
Tracking since Aug 21 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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r/rust — frequently asked
How many members does r/rust have?
r/rust has 419,060 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 21. 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?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/rust yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 21; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/rust?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/rust yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
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?
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