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

Statistics generated on Thursday 5 March 2026 - 0:19:44
During this 28-day reporting period, a total of 76 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.


Most active times
2.7%
331
2.2%
264
3.0%
363
3.2%
399
2.6%
323
2.3%
288
2.4%
291
3.6%
437
4.5%
557
3.8%
461
3.3%
408
4.3%
526
3.1%
384
4.3%
528
5.3%
655
4.4%
542
5.5%
678
8.2%
1008
3.9%
481
5.0%
616
4.5%
548
8.7%
1064
3.8%
463
4.0%
497
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 ville28171126784815yesterday"https://haqr.eu/tinyrenderer/"
2 Raziel1316863818223 days ago"well, I haven't written entt, I just use it in a few things"
3 masterchief12271137002 days ago"my repo : https://github.com/masterchief-max/Blue-Menace"
4 libfud10313236713388 days ago"cppcon video on dynamic debugging in MSVC"
5 PJBoy7965320779yesterday"I guess __COUNTER__ keeps its value for the entire macro"
6 Budd6960911212 days ago"Ah - I think that's the clue I needed."
7 Alipha681022361052yesterday"Budd: https://godbolt.org/z/qY1Yff1T8 -- with call example"
8 kalven64194536739yesterday"but also uniformly distributed?"
9 boru64225377138 days ago"egoto would still end your scope there, no?"
10 ximbau545224142 days ago"did the computations by hand, then I saw opengl doing them to me"
11 mort5254103310967 days ago"can we have it in C++ too?"
12 _PJBoy475424782 days ago"throwing's the most typical way"
13 Kill-Animals454410476 days ago"I didnt even know you could have a `;` inside switch parenthese."
14 Richardcavell_4471225680yesterday"but you end up doing auto l = // and then it does have a name"
15 CarloWood43241987614 days ago"cbreak: it is surprisingly more complex than I expected."
16 Guest65363635423 days ago"It's certainly some form of obfuscation/encryption"
17 pipi321616265yesterday"your statements are kinda... bold"
18 rbox2412316411 days ago"sounds like youre returning an object, not a pointer"
19 ARoxdale2321203945 days ago"What's next? shared_unique_ptr?"
20 b_jonas23111835096 days ago"There are pragmas to disable specific warnings in specific reg..."
21 Richardcavell2331284843 days ago"Scrap that - clang is doing it as well."
22 meicceli231222496 days ago"can somebody help me debug this lifetime(?) issue? I don't qui..."
23 lru2311483033 days ago"at first blush, it does sound like a single for loop"
24 stanrifkin2121091182 days ago"Maybe there are build options, so that gcc uses it by default."
25 fef201461607 days ago"and C++ upgrading like C++ 20 ,23"


These didn't make it to the top:
metayeti (19) yes-ubuntu (19) maxdamage (18) manuels (18) Habbie (17)
lru_ (15) computerquip (14) KombuchaKip (14) fiesh (13) Richardcavell__ (13)
InPhase (13) [808]state (12) drew (11) afiore (10) cart_man (10)
Svitkona (10) pasteldepelo (10) jbo (9) Inline (9) lh_mouse (8)
meupau (8) osse (8) cbreak (7) MaddHatter (7) geordi_ (7)
xexecaoxeroso (6) tusko (6) nightfrog (5) acsvln (4) ville_ (4)

By the way, there were 21 other nicks.

Big numbers
Is yes-ubuntu stupid or just asking too many questions? 57.9% lines contained a question!
Richardcavell_ didn't know that much either. 45.5% of his/her lines were questions.
The loudest one was yes-ubuntu, who yelled 21.1% of the time!
Another old yeller was meicceli, who shouted 4.3% of the time!
It seems that stanrifkin's shift-key is hanging: 4.8% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
     <stanrifkin> COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS?

meicceli just forgot to deactivate his/her Caps-Lock. He/She wrote UPPERCASE 4.3% of the time.
Nobody beat anyone up. Everybody was friendly.
yes-ubuntu brings happiness to the world. 15.8% lines contained smiling faces. :)
fef isn't a sad person either, smiling 10.0% of the time.
CarloWood seems to be sad at the moment: 7.0% lines contained sad faces. :(
Habbie is also a sad person, crying 5.9% of the time.
Kill-Animals wrote the longest lines, averaging 127.8 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 77.7 letters per line.
maxdamage wrote the shortest lines, averaging 19.9 characters per line.
masterchief was tight-lipped, too, averaging 28.8 characters.
ville spoke a total of 4815 words!
ville's faithful follower, Raziel, didn't speak so much: 1822 words.
kx69 wrote an average of 58.00 words per line.
Channel average was 13.69 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 function 64 ville
2 think 47 Budd
3 there 47 nightfrgg
4 would 42 nightfrog
5 something 34 ville
6 lambdas 28 PJBoy
7 things 23 Inline
8 return 21 ville
9 where 21 ville
10 which 21 nightfrog

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://xxx.godbolt.org/z/Ts5x8dYnj 1 ville
3 https://godbolt.org/z/jGo7q7EWv 1 kalven
4 https://xxx.godbolt.org/z/dsqx78o1h 1 ville
5 https://0x0.st/PAAi.txt 1 osse
6 https://interpreterbook.com/ 1 ville
7 https://github.com/taskflow/taskflow 1 PJBoy
8 https://github.com/CarloWood/remountd?tab=readme-ov-file#rem 1 CarloWood
9 https://wg21.link/p2169r4/github 1 npaperbot
10 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/header/bit.html 1 b_jonas
11 https://godbolt.org/z/rWT7rnYqT 1 Alipha
12 https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/modernize/use 1 Raziel
13 https://godbolt.org/z/qY1Yff1T8 1 Alipha
14 https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses/commit/d1b07171fdf 1 jbo
15 https://godbolt.org/z/MeTWb583x 1 meicceli

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 loves open gl

Also, pipi 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 Guest65, who managed to hit 3 times.
masterchief has quite a potty mouth. 0.6% words were foul language.
ville also makes sailors blush, 0.1% of the time.

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