#C++-general @ Libera.chat stats by TinoDidriksen

Statistics generated on Friday 24 July 2026 - 0:08:01
During this 28-day reporting period, a total of 61 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.


Most active times
3.2%
298
8.5%
804
3.0%
286
2.3%
215
2.8%
267
2.4%
225
3.7%
354
4.7%
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3.2%
307
3.6%
342
4.1%
391
4.3%
411
5.1%
479
3.5%
327
4.3%
406
4.1%
389
4.7%
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4.7%
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4.8%
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4.3%
407
3.9%
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5.4%
506
3.7%
353
3.9%
372
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0-5 = 0-5 6-11 = 6-11 12-17 = 12-17 18-23 = 18-23

Most active nicks
 NickNumber of linesWhen?Number of WordsLast seenRandom quote
1 ville174972892706yesterday"object files are not the same as static or dynamic library files"
2 stefanos8215531665817452 days ago"tell that to the committee, not to Bjarne"
3 meator83473619662 days ago"But that doesn't answer my question."
4 PJBoy57331212588yesterday"it helped incremental build time, but not *that* much"
5 manuels49495573 days ago"but well linux is a pain anyway, but still solvable."
6 karenw4528169073 days ago"https://godbolt.org/z/Y355GMd3o"
7 nightfrog384102445710 days ago"stefanos82: I've wondered why as well."
8 mort37730674yesterday"I have done that, it's not great but it's not horrible"
9 Alipha3621123575yesterday"{ auto msg = std::string{"abcd"sv}; }"
10 computerquip33210214133 days ago"Windows used to make that quite awful actually."
11 baudejogos29272542yesterday"meator, plenty workplaces also ban exceptions in C++. it's sad"
12 fiesh239142842 days ago"yeah I don't think that's how it's done right..."
13 kalven212217175yesterday"what does 00 mean if it's not formatting?"
14 KatalinSB20202603 days ago"c++ has multiple STL implementations because it is an actual s..."
15 CalimeroTeknik2091131221 days ago"wow, heaptrack *immediately* reports a 1.2GB leak!"
16 manx18611151618 days ago"yeah, no, that's not a solution, sorry."
17 Richardcavell18108278yesterday"So when I write some code and compile it, I end up with an obj..."
18 interop_madness171748214 days ago"Hello quick sanity check: Should forward declarations always b..."
19 stanrifkin161612414 days ago"the examples are in plain C"
20 omom14149514 days ago"trying to mix with reading github's open source projects"
21 paul4241412218817 days ago"sure, but that does not answer my question"
22 geordi_131435413 days ago"error: expected ';' before '}' token (fix known)"
23 Svitkona112414893 days ago"i think it hasn't been able to use clang for some time now"
24 lh_mouse10641283 days ago"geordi_, << foo(); constexpr int foo() { return printf("a"); }"
25 MaddHatter101027210 days ago"std::shared_ptr's constructor can throw, so I don't see how th..."


These didn't make it to the top:
veverak (8) ARoxdale (8) cbreak (8) jmd (8) lru (8)
rbox (8) Shell (6) meicceli (5) Terminus (5) boru (5)
snappy (5) InPhase (4) Guest93 (4) JesusJuice (4) Yakov (4)
Kill-Animals (4) metayeti (4) RonJeremy (3) rajkosto (3) b_jonas (2)
sikowitz_g0x2 (2) glguy (2) OnibusDaSuruba (1) andreyv (1) sonOfRa (1)
Guest7 (1) nightfrgg (1) barometz (1) great_taste (1) Goinsssstt (1)

By the way, there were 6 other nicks.

Big numbers
Is Richardcavell stupid or just asking too many questions? 61.1% lines contained a question!
kalven didn't know that much either. 38.1% of his/her lines were questions.
The loudest one was CalimeroTeknik, who yelled 20.0% of the time!
Another old yeller was stefanos82, who shouted 9.0% of the time!
Everybody had their shift-key under control. :)
Nobody beat anyone up. Everybody was friendly.
karenw brings happiness to the world. 17.8% lines contained smiling faces. :)
manx isn't a sad person either, smiling 11.1% of the time.
baudejogos seems to be sad at the moment: 6.9% lines contained sad faces. :(
PJBoy is also a sad person, crying 1.8% of the time.
manx wrote the longest lines, averaging 178.4 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 86.5 letters per line.
omom wrote the shortest lines, averaging 39.1 characters per line.
stanrifkin was tight-lipped, too, averaging 42.8 characters.
ville spoke a total of 2706 words!
ville's faithful follower, meator, didn't speak so much: 1966 words.
b_jonas wrote an average of 42.00 words per line.
Channel average was 14.94 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 would 73 Richardcavell
2 about 39 KatalinSB
3 class 32 meator
4 build 31 lpavan383
5 there 28 PJBoy
6 library 27 ville
7 language 26 KatalinSB
8 function 26 PJBoy
9 things 25 stefanos82
10 header 22 Alipha

Most referenced nicks
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 ville 15 karenw
2 manuels 14 stefanos82
3 meator 13 ville
4 stefanos82 12 kalven
5 manx 11 ville

Most referenced URLs
 URL Number of Uses Last Used by
1 https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/string/basic_string_view/ope 1 stefanos82
2 https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/conditional-compilation. 1 manx
3 https://github.com/alipha/cpp/blob/master/poly_obj/poly_obj. 1 Alipha
4 https://eel.is/c++draft/except.throw#5 1 ville
5 https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/qchar.html#fromUcs4 1 manuels
6 https://godbolt.org/z/Y355GMd3o 1 karenw
7 https://github.com/PJBoy/Metroid-level-editor/blob/main/os_m 1 PJBoy
8 https://www.learncpp.com 1 omom
9 https://lwn.net/Articles/1081015/ 1 manx
10 https://eel.is/c++draft/class 1 stefanos82
11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F-2Y1LPRek 1 kalven
12 https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/thread/condition_variable/wa 1 fiesh
13 https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/ipc.html 1 stefanos82
14 https://xxx.godbolt.org/z/6PTvfxPfx 1 ville
15 https://eel.is/c++draft/except.throw#5.sentence-2 1 ville

Other interesting numbers
Nice opers here, no one got kicked!
Strange, no op was given on #C++-general!
Wow, no op was taken on #C++-general!
stefanos82 always lets us know what he/she's doing: 3 actions!
For example, like this:
     * stefanos82 *coughs "Boost.Interprocess" coughs*

Also, baudejogos tells us what's up with 1 actions.
CalimeroTeknik talks to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 2 times!
Another lonely one was PJBoy, who managed to hit 1 times.
PJBoy has quite a potty mouth. 0.2% words were foul language.
computerquip also makes sailors blush, 0.2% of the time.

Latest Topics
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