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

Statistics generated on Sunday 8 March 2026 - 0:22:10
During this 28-day reporting period, a total of 80 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.


Most active times
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341
2.2%
277
3.0%
378
3.0%
385
2.5%
320
2.4%
301
2.4%
307
3.6%
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4.8%
617
3.6%
459
3.3%
417
4.4%
560
3.9%
496
4.2%
532
5.1%
658
4.7%
603
5.4%
697
8.1%
1032
3.9%
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5.0%
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4.6%
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8.5%
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3.7%
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4.1%
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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 ville318879148835377yesterday"lambda syntax something you've complained about?"
2 boru131507915303 days ago"Yes, I was talking about two different things."
3 masterchief12271137005 days ago"(i don't know the early concept of chat seince i am gen alpha)"
4 Raziel120823815776 days ago"yeah, same as in if, since C++17, init-statement"
5 PJBoy1196932010462 days ago"why would you *not* want that"
6 libfud103132367133811 days ago"and without a better allocation story, that part will also suck"
7 _PJBoy745697493 days ago"geordi_, -c { void(*pf)() = [](){}; }"
8 kalven64185437750yesterday"Richardcavell_: what's the question? assigning an empty struct..."
9 Alipha63101637993yesterday"it'd be like doing: return (my_std_string + "foo").begin();"
10 mort5654143311262 days ago"the best would be an API where you can say, "try to expand thi..."
11 ximbau545224145 days ago"opengl is pretty close to the theoretical math models"
12 Richardcavell_4691225706yesterday"https://godbolt.org/z/bf5fr1qWa can anyone explain line 4 to m..."
13 Kill-Animals454410479 days ago"Raziel: That is good criticism, thanks!"
14 Budd443597215 days ago"that's wrong - I mean they result in ints. I think."
15 CarloWood43241987617 days ago"Aka - a table base for K+R vs K on a very large board."
16 Guest65363635426 days ago"try giving the llm this one: https://pastebin.com/raw/utbptgXD"
17 pipi3216162654 days ago"he is very centered and pragmatic"
18 ARoxdale323128602yesterday"How can you add a literal oxymoron to the standard?"
19 computerquip298417482yesterday"Anyone ever run into an issue with IWYU / Clangd where it says..."
20 lru2511149328yesterday"Richardcavell: how did you add the second compiler?"
21 rbox2412316414 days ago"static analysis might have found it"
22 Richardcavell2331284846 days ago"every function could return std::pair<>"
23 meicceli231222499 days ago"I'm assuming there's no way to force a lifetime extension?"
24 apteryx212192892 days ago"basically 'cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -GNinja [...] ..'"
25 b_jonas2011184709 days ago"how is that just a warning"


These didn't make it to the top:
stanrifkin (20) fef (20) Habbie (19) yes-ubuntu (19) lh_mouse (19)
metayeti (19) fiesh (18) drew (18) manuels (18) maxdamage (18)
lru_ (15) KombuchaKip (14) InPhase (13) Richardcavell__ (13) [808]state (12)
cart_man (10) Svitkona (10) afiore (10) pasteldepelo (10) geordi_ (9)
Inline (9) jbo (9) osse (8) barometz (8) meupau (8)
very_sneaky (8) cbreak (7) MaddHatter (7) xexecaoxeroso (6) rajkosto (6)

By the way, there were 25 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. 45.7% of his/her lines were questions.
The loudest one was yes-ubuntu, who yelled 21.1% of the time!
Another old yeller was drew, who shouted 5.6% of the time!
It seems that lh_mouse's shift-key is hanging: 5.3% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
     <lh_mouse> -DCMAKE_CXX

stanrifkin just forgot to deactivate his/her Caps-Lock. He/She wrote UPPERCASE 5.0% 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. :(
yes-ubuntu is also a sad person, crying 5.3% of the time.
Kill-Animals wrote the longest lines, averaging 127.8 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 76.8 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 5377 words!
ville's faithful follower, Raziel, didn't speak so much: 1577 words.
kx69 wrote an average of 58.00 words per line.
Channel average was 13.52 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 function 64 ville
2 think 54 very_sneaky
3 something 48 ville
4 would 48 barometz
5 return 38 ville
6 there 37 nightfrgg
7 things 30 boru
8 which 29 ville
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 kalven 9 KombuchaKip

Most referenced URLs
 URL Number of Uses Last Used by
1 https://godbolt.org/z/PEaqcoPMx 2 yes-ubuntu
2 https://malus.sh/blog.html 2 ville
3 https://pjboy.godbolt.org/z/j9nW7YbEq 1 PJBoy
4 https://godbolt.org/z/4hf6qc73E 1 Richardcavell_
5 https://godbolt.org/z/4azTjG8MG 1 Alipha
6 https://wg21.link/p2169r4/github 1 npaperbot
7 https://pjboy.godbolt.org/z/33cecqfhq 1 PJBoy
8 https://isocpp.github.io/CppCoreGuidelines/CppCoreGuidelines 1 Raziel
9 https://ideone.com/MZY8Rv 1 Alipha
10 https://eel.is/c++draft/namespace.unnamed 1 ville
11 https://ideone.com/2EHDgA 1 Richardcavell_
12 https://github.com/svaante/dape 1 tusko
13 https://godbolt.org/z/Kscn3ejjE 1 _PJBoy
14 https://eel.is/c++draft/expr.prim.lambda.closure#3 1 ville
15 https://ideone.com/n8PBsl 1 Richardcavell__

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 rewards masterchief with an internet badge

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.

Latest Topics
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