rats159

Subscribers 7.3K

Videos 36

Views 798.0K

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Rats159 offers opinionated and educational videos on programming, focusing on systems programming, low-level concepts, memory management, and language design. The channel primarily publishes long-form tutorials and deep-dives about topics like C, type systems, allocators, and error handling, with a cadence that appears to average around multiple videos per month and recent uploads around 8–15 minutes in length, averaging roughly 49.4K views per video.

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Discovered competitors include Low Level (82% match) and Fireship (74% match) as top rivals, both overlapping on systems programming, low-level concepts, and memory management languages. Boot dev (73% match) also shares these queries, while Neso Academy (67% match) covers struct layout issues and compiler theory basics, and Ryan Baker (64% match) touches memory management topics. Rats159 and Low Level differ in audience size, with Rats159 at 7.3K subscribers versus 1.1M for Low Level and 4.1M for Fireship; the overlap in topics explains why they are competitive. The main shared queries are systems programming topics, low-level concepts, memory management languages, and memory management basics.

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Which YouTube channels are most similar to rats159?

Low Level — 82% match, 1.1M subscribers; Fireship — 74% match, 4.1M subscribers; Boot dev — 73% match, 142K subscribers. All three are programming-focused channels with similar tech education content and audience interests as rats159.

What type of content does rats159 make?

rats159 creates educational programming content, with video titles like Why we still use C despite so many C alternatives, Why do we keep reinventing enums?, The weirdest language I've seen in a while, Why languages should never reorder your structs, What even is a low level language? These videos suggest a focus on language design and low-level concepts, typical of programming educational content. Upload frequency appears to be multiple videos per week, with an average around 49.4K views per video.

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