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

Statistics generated on Friday 23 October 2026 - 0:57:11
During this 28-day reporting period, a total of 44 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.


Most active times
2.8%
301
3.6%
386
3.9%
423
3.2%
343
2.8%
301
3.0%
329
3.9%
421
5.3%
572
4.3%
460
4.0%
429
4.0%
436
3.9%
427
3.9%
423
5.3%
573
4.5%
483
4.8%
524
5.4%
588
4.9%
529
4.8%
522
5.3%
572
4.4%
473
3.9%
421
2.8%
300
3.8%
413
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 ville1475647262469yesterday"thanks i'll give that a read then"
2 mort89226717024 days ago"is that what you wanted PJBoy"
3 PJBoy75145838404 days ago"yeah and they're the easiest issues to detect with tools"
4 tobbi3526924714 days ago"Let me check the CXX standard."
5 paul4242417726414 days ago"one instance of it explicite"
6 DrMax22218217420 days ago"well, it wouldn't be consistent with everything else"
7 fiesh2216642217 days ago"either I'm having a dejuvu, or this exact question was asked b..."
8 lh_mouse22121313yesterday"I suspect not having a trailing return type means the function..."
9 computerquip221392909 days ago"Found https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1wyg6ee/measuring_..."
10 Inline176111527 days ago"the garbage collector has sometimes garbage"
11 kalven16310315117 days ago"boru: I'm not, since i don't hate programming"
12 lru1619639424 days ago"https://youtu.be/OuNKBjuV7A4?t=193 "Rust is amaaAaazing, if ..."
13 Ragatanga1651116015 days ago"build systems shouldn't be programming languages :("
14 j_importer151142097 days ago"i think having a real programming language for the build syste..."
15 TinusLorvalds11118325 days ago"If you were to create a videogame engine, would you use Rust?"
16 meicceli1010125yesterday"anybody know why adding a trailing return type here silences -..."
17 FeleMeAgora8178316 days ago"thank god we have AI for doing that already"
18 b_jonas8816820 days ago"ville: I don't know what array size you're referring to here."
19 boru778617 days ago"I think it's sad. So many programmers hate programming so much..."
20 [o6123833 days ago"strings are meant for... strings!!! ... whole chunks of chars"
21 Svitkona6244517 days ago"you can just initialize it to any value"
22 jcarpenter25510123 days ago"Thinkin' about how to get slightly more readable error message..."
23 jmd41216317 days ago"Are there any circumstances under which changing the word "pri..."
24 andreyv42210610 days ago"Well, there is llvm::Twine, whose ideas seem relevant here. Bu..."
25 Allio844224125 days ago"can anyone give me some advice on how to debug the logic that ..."


These didn't make it to the top:
pony (3) Alipha (3) guideX (2) coc0nut (2) ac_slater (2)
npaperbot (2) cbreak (2) karenw (2) InPhase (2) nightfrog (2)
BucetaoPeludo (2) Terminus (2) TommyC (1) lh_mouse_ (1) HeTo (1)
Dickwolf (1) Stryyker (1) KoVadim (1) rbox (1)

Big numbers
Is DrMax stupid or just asking too many questions? 27.3% lines contained a question!
kalven didn't know that much either. 25.0% of his/her lines were questions.
The loudest one was lru, who yelled 6.2% of the time!
Another old yeller was Ragatanga, who shouted 6.2% of the time!
It seems that PJBoy's shift-key is hanging: 1.3% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
     <PJBoy> [P3074]
Nobody beat anyone up. Everybody was friendly.
paul424 brings happiness to the world. 12.5% lines contained smiling faces. :)
lru isn't a sad person either, smiling 6.2% of the time.
Ragatanga seems to be sad at the moment: 12.5% lines contained sad faces. :(
mort is also a sad person, crying 1.1% of the time.
lru wrote the longest lines, averaging 133.8 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 82.8 letters per line.
tobbi wrote the shortest lines, averaging 44.7 characters per line.
DrMax was tight-lipped, too, averaging 45.0 characters.
ville spoke a total of 2469 words!
ville's faithful follower, mort, didn't speak so much: 1702 words.
karenw wrote an average of 38.50 words per line.
Channel average was 14.44 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 would 20 kalven
2 string 19 mort
3 there 17 j_importer
4 return 14 lh_mouse
5 which 14 j_importer
6 language 14 j_importer
7 memory 11 mort
8 compile 11 ville
9 exceptions 11 lh_mouse
10 because 11 ville

Most referenced nicks
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 mort 5 j_importer
2 DrMax 5 Alipha

Most referenced URLs
 URL Number of Uses Last Used by
1 https://xxx.godbolt.org/z/rv5rYaehr 2 ville
2 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220228-00/?p=10 1 lh_mouse
3 https://godbolt.org/z/b6KsTe3ax 1 meicceli
4 https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/95280 1 meicceli
5 https://github.com/edgcpp/compiler 1 kalven
6 https://gist.github.com/tobbi/e92b44f9ff8477893dd13d9ce2c65b 1 tobbi
7 https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1wyg6ee/measuring_the_ 1 computerquip
8 https://wg21.link/p3726r1 1 npaperbot
9 https://xxx.godbolt.org/z/5aKxraWvE 1 ville
10 https://xxx.godbolt.org/z/43ar7f5ME 1 ville
11 https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/language/data_members#Member 1 PJBoy
12 https://godbolt.org/z/Era6dbb8M 1 karenw
13 https://wg21.link/p3074r7/github 1 npaperbot
14 https://www.bdsoft.com/tools/stlfilt.html 1 kalven
15 https://xxx.godbolt.org/z/rTxhGG5qd 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!
No actions in #C++-general!
mort talks to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 1 times!
Another lonely one was paul424, who managed to hit 1 times.
PJBoy has quite a potty mouth. 0.1% words were foul language.
mort also makes sailors blush, 0.1% of the time.

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