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

Statistics generated on Sunday 2 November 2025 - 0:14:53
During this 28-day reporting period, a total of 71 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.


Most active times
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404
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400
2.7%
359
3.3%
433
1.9%
252
2.0%
265
4.8%
634
5.6%
737
3.1%
413
4.9%
649
5.4%
715
6.2%
825
5.1%
678
4.2%
556
3.6%
477
4.6%
612
4.0%
533
4.8%
630
4.5%
589
4.6%
603
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3.6%
480
7.4%
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2.8%
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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 davros13012782256672 days ago"some kind of schema read by a tool to spit out more sourcecode"
2 metayeti2962217528083 days ago"no, it's still horrible even when used "right""
3 ville19814997963260yesterday"https://godbolt.org/z/M3Tj7q97G"
4 PJBoy18845677319142 days ago"and somehow concluded that free functions are favourable"
5 mort1813114825343 days ago"sounds like that person made a bad choice"
6 Dragoon1524453302515203 days ago"In what world is QML from the 80s?"
7 paul4241394746120364 days ago"the compiler stucks at the line 20 :"
8 lh_mouse802530251052yesterday"if something is const it should probably also be static."
9 fiesh6752159672 days ago"not even of legal age to smoke and drink yet"
10 _PJBoy635766965 days ago"neither case prevents a function that takes its parameter by v..."
11 Alipha601347895yesterday"fiesh: nah, you were good clarification"
12 veverak494627914 days ago"ville: well, there are still corner cases where we need it"
13 lru475325145455 days ago"so in theory, passing a string_view or a string by value are a..."
14 meicceli448364002 days ago"but that's becaues there's a conversion happening"
15 Shellhound404089815 days ago"who cares about how fast anything compiles"
16 cart_man40131266284 days ago"It has always been awkward to work with"
17 Habbie3312483483 days ago"then why not link those deps statically?"
18 davros1_3230262013 days ago"i haven't foudn that to be a limiting factor"
19 computerquip308225532 days ago"Though... not entirely it would seem."
20 pipi23231413 days ago"and the apple hardware is far superior"
21 Raziel231674134 days ago"I don't see why that would matter"
22 Svitkona212138112 days ago"it doesn't do anything special on its own"
23 manuels1991030315 days ago"do they make the classic ugly export obsolete?"
24 davros1__1611519612 days ago"some temlpate parameters in that picture"
25 drew145934710 days ago"I am using conan for this project and it is cool when it works..."


These didn't make it to the top:
AmR (13) pasteldepelo (13) theWeaver (12) SuperJail (12) karenw (12)
smol-hors (12) kalven (11) urdh (11) Kill-Animals (10) PaulaDenthro (10)
barometz (8) Minvera (7) printfdebugging (7) npaperbot (6) Richardcavell_ (6)
Guest24 (6) garrettkajmowicz (6) OverCoder (5) cbreak (5) ShallowPeak (5)
stanrifkin (5) TheBuell (4) MrMobius (4) pony (4) rbox (4)
MaddHatter (3) Inline (3) ARoxdale (3) Inline_ (3) kilzen (3)

By the way, there were 16 other nicks.

Big numbers
Is cart_man stupid or just asking too many questions? 30.0% lines contained a question!
lru didn't know that much either. 27.7% of his/her lines were questions.
The loudest one was paul424, who yelled 5.0% of the time!
Another old yeller was fiesh, who shouted 4.5% of the time!
It seems that computerquip's shift-key is hanging: 3.3% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
     <computerquip> O

cart_man just forgot to deactivate his/her Caps-Lock. He/She wrote UPPERCASE 2.5% of the time.
lh_mouse is a very aggressive person. He/She attacked others 1 times.
For example, like this:
     * lh_mouse slaps Dragoon around a bit with a large trout

pasteldepelo can't control his/her aggressions, either. He/She picked on others 1 times.
Poor the, nobody likes him/her. He/She was attacked 1 times.
For example, like this:
     * pasteldepelo slaps the strawman

Dragoon seems to be unliked too. He/She got beaten 1 times.
Shellhound brings happiness to the world. 30.0% lines contained smiling faces. :)
paul424 isn't a sad person either, smiling 10.8% of the time.
mort seems to be sad at the moment: 1.1% lines contained sad faces. :(
paul424 is also a sad person, crying 0.7% of the time.
cart_man wrote the longest lines, averaging 126.5 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 78.8 letters per line.
pipi wrote the shortest lines, averaging 31.3 characters per line.
metayeti was tight-lipped, too, averaging 51.2 characters.
davros1 spoke a total of 5667 words!
davros1's faithful follower, ville, didn't speak so much: 3260 words.
muxelplexer wrote an average of 47.00 words per line.
Channel average was 13.74 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 would 98 metayeti
2 which 85 mort
3 about 78 ville
4 there 59 mort
5 think 55 metayeti
6 using 52 ville
7 people 52 davros1
8 function 48 PJBoy
9 language 39 metayeti
10 because 39 ville

Most referenced nicks
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 metayeti 32 davros1
2 davros1 31 ville
3 mort 15 metayeti
4 PJBoy 13 cart_man
5 ville 10 Dragoon

Most referenced URLs
 URL Number of Uses Last Used by
1 https://pastebin.com/G1zfDk5b 2 paul424
2 https://pastebin.com/4ivymfCv 2 paul424
3 https://www.learncpp.com/ 2 ville
4 https://godbolt.org/z/58nrcb5nq 1 meicceli
5 https://lwn.net/Articles/1011366/ 1 ville
6 https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines 1 meicceli
7 https://wg21.link/ewg147 1 npaperbot
8 https://godbolt.org/z/81r9oGGWW 1 PJBoy
9 https://godbolt.org/z/176dqY9hM 1 cart_man
10 https://godbolt.org/z/nosf99KP3 1 meicceli
11 https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2025/p36 1 computerquip
12 https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/124088 1 PJBoy
13 https://godbolt.org/z/sdrTd5sYP 1 paul424
14 https://godbolt.org/z/8saTzW9vY 1 ville
15 https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1nswi4s/til_that_the_w 1 Raziel

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!
pipi always lets us know what he/she's doing: 3 actions!
For example, like this:
     * pipi links statically with glibc

Also, lh_mouse tells us what's up with 2 actions.
davros1 talks to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 8 times!
Another lonely one was paul424, who managed to hit 4 times.
Raziel has quite a potty mouth. 0.5% words were foul language.
Shellhound also makes sailors blush, 0.3% of the time.

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