rats159

Subscribers 7.3K

Videos 36

Views 798.0K

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rats159 provides opinionated and educational videos on programming, covering systems programming topics, low-level concepts, memory management, type systems, allocators, and error handling. The channel publishes tutorials and deep-dives on language design and struct layout issues, with recent videos ranging from why C persists to how metaprogramming and reflection work, averaging about 49.4K views per video and approximately weekly uploads since starting in 2020.

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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 channels appear to focus on programming and software development topics, similar to rats159's content.

What type of content does rats159 make?

Rats159 creates programming-focused videos that discuss language design and low-level concepts, as evidenced by titles like 'Why we still use C despite so many C alternatives', 'Why do we keep reinventing enums?', and 'What even is a low level language?'. The channel's videos average around 49.4K views each, and the channel has about 7.3K subscribers with an upload pattern described as ~? uploads/week.

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