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

Statistics generated on Tuesday 17 March 2026 - 0:36:30
During this 28-day reporting period, a total of 72 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.


Most active times
2.7%
327
2.1%
252
2.9%
352
3.0%
365
2.3%
276
2.1%
262
2.7%
330
3.7%
459
4.6%
568
3.1%
385
3.2%
391
4.2%
515
4.4%
542
3.9%
476
4.3%
524
4.8%
594
5.0%
615
9.6%
1174
3.7%
457
4.6%
569
4.4%
544
8.9%
1092
4.1%
497
4.3%
524
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
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 ville3331083149915520yesterday"does gcc c++ preprocessor have mode where it would "flatten" a..."
2 PJBoy18224131271620yesterday"selection doesn't make sense"
3 mort124529405022052 days ago"it's a terrible API but it works"
4 masterchief122711370014 days ago"i will try my best in this version and my next repo's"
5 boru1052679113012 days ago"But to me, it's a part of the hobby."
6 Raziel996732136215 days ago"ville, I love that if you change that to -O3 it's all just one..."
7 libfud9772367125020 days ago"or set kernel boot options"
8 Alipha831027461305yesterday"mort: only local variables (which includes by-value parameters)"
9 Budd80195291330yesterday"I'm trying to specialize a templated function for any integral..."
10 meupau5848104762 days ago":( not even the stream fails"
11 _PJBoy5711465436 days ago"there are obfuscators you can use to gives crappy names to ide..."
12 kalven55208621680yesterday"computerquip: the name of the check say non-private, but the t..."
13 ximbau5452241414 days ago"and too much Halo can really screw up one's head"
14 computerquip461012247055 days ago"Have no classes with no public variables...?"
15 Kill-Animals4544104718 days ago"Raziel: That is good criticism, thanks!"
16 Richardcavell_42913206539 days ago"https://godbolt.org/z/bf5fr1qWa can anyone explain line 4 to m..."
17 meicceli41404968 days ago"but apparently that is not possible here :/"
18 Habbie3532302684 days ago"cpu*/topology/core_id from the /sys path above does the same"
19 pipi32161626513 days ago"now find me a good use case for protected inheritance. lol"
20 InPhase3017137199 days ago"Or 4 to make it a power of 2."
21 Richardcavell258125446yesterday"So what's gcc/clang's support for C++23 like? Should we be ta..."
22 rbox241231625 days ago"and you're dereferecnging it"
23 lh_mouse2421663665 days ago"ville: if it is targeting Windows, then mostly yes."
24 geordi_2411211129yesterday"error: a variable cannot be declared 'consteval'"
25 fiesh2381412682 days ago"lru: indeed, color me surprised!"


These didn't make it to the top:
drew (23) afiore (22) apteryx (21) fef (20) lru (20)
metayeti (19) yes-ubuntu (19) maxdamage (18) manuels (18) b_jonas (16)
ARoxdale (16) KombuchaKip (14) Richardcavell__ (13) [808]state (12) rajkosto (10)
Svitkona (10) cart_man (10) Inline (9) CarloWood (8) very_sneaky (7)
MaddHatter (7) barometz (7) cbreak (6) tusko (6) xexecaoxeroso (6)
snappy (5) acsvln (5) nightfrog (5) andreyv (3) stanrifkin (3)

By the way, there were 17 other nicks.

Big numbers
Is yes-ubuntu stupid or just asking too many questions? 52.6% lines contained a question!
Richardcavell didn't know that much either. 48.0% of his/her lines were questions.
The loudest one was yes-ubuntu, who yelled 26.3% of the time!
Another old yeller was metayeti, who shouted 5.3% of the time!
It seems that geordi_'s shift-key is hanging: 8.3% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
     <geordi_> B0* B0=>B1* B0~ B1~

afiore just forgot to deactivate his/her Caps-Lock. He/She wrote UPPERCASE 4.5% of the time.
Nobody beat anyone up. Everybody was friendly.
afiore brings happiness to the world. 13.6% lines contained smiling faces. :)
yes-ubuntu isn't a sad person either, smiling 10.5% of the time.
yes-ubuntu seems to be sad at the moment: 5.3% lines contained sad faces. :(
meupau is also a sad person, crying 5.2% of the time.
InPhase wrote the longest lines, averaging 137.0 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 76.0 letters per line.
masterchief wrote the shortest lines, averaging 28.8 characters per line.
geordi_ was tight-lipped, too, averaging 34.4 characters.
ville spoke a total of 5520 words!
ville's faithful follower, mort, didn't speak so much: 2205 words.
rg wrote an average of 48.00 words per line.
Channel average was 13.44 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 function 67 kalven
2 think 59 Richardcavell
3 return 52 mort
4 would 48 barometz
5 something 47 drew
6 which 34 Alipha
7 things 30 boru
8 there 30 cbreak
9 lambdas 28 PJBoy
10 about 22 boru

Most referenced nicks
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 Richardcavell_ 28 Alipha
2 Raziel 22 Kill-Animals
3 ville 14 [808]state
4 Kill-Animals 13 Raziel
5 masterchief 9 ximbau

Most referenced URLs
 URL Number of Uses Last Used by
1 https://godbolt.org/z/PEaqcoPMx 2 yes-ubuntu
2 https://gitea.evergreencrypto.co/EvergreenCrypto/docker-fina 2 afiore
3 https://gitea.com/EvergreenCrypto/dfi-docs/src/branch/master 2 afiore
4 https://malus.sh/blog.html 2 ville
5 https://wg21.link/p2447r6 1 npaperbot
6 https://ideone.com/n8PBsl 1 Richardcavell__
7 https://wg21.link/p2806r3/github 1 npaperbot
8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet#Sound_values 1 ville
9 https://godbolt.org/z/hdKP9rz9K 1 fiesh
10 https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/defer-available-in- 1 ville
11 https://cppreference.com/w/Cppreference%253AArchives.html 1 ARoxdale
12 https://godbolt.org/z/eobY1b31x 1 Alipha
13 https://godbolt.org/z/jGo7q7EWv 1 kalven
14 https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/modernize/ret 1 drew
15 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/debug/pe-for 1 lh_mouse

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!
ximbau always lets us know what he/she's doing: 5 actions!
For example, like this:
     * ximbau will gladly review your code. honest :)

Also, afiore tells us what's up with 2 actions.
masterchief talks to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 3 times!
Another lonely one was maxdamage, who managed to hit 2 times.
masterchief has quite a potty mouth. 0.6% words were foul language.
libfud also makes sailors blush, 0.1% of the time.

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