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

Statistics generated on Friday 26 June 2026 - 0:03:53
During this 28-day reporting period, a total of 57 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.


Most active times
2.7%
271
3.8%
383
3.9%
387
3.3%
330
3.3%
327
3.4%
341
3.3%
331
5.0%
496
3.9%
389
4.0%
404
4.3%
430
4.8%
479
5.9%
588
4.5%
453
6.3%
629
5.2%
517
5.3%
528
3.9%
392
3.2%
322
4.2%
421
3.7%
374
3.4%
344
3.0%
297
3.8%
378
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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 stefanos8219432130322134today"I'm really curious to see just the copy initialization line"
2 ville1575281081628213 days ago"what will profiles do that a static analyzer can't do today?"
3 PJBoy1347112151358today"e.g. into real-time embedded or super niche HFT stuff"
4 Kill-Animals105109319273 days ago"No. That would suck. Leave them dangling."
5 boru5821241310214 days ago"But another project whose install instructions are: curl this ..."
6 cbreak51929137174 days ago"but at least it's not that weird zig thing"
7 Alipha502417951today"meator: https://godbolt.org/z/bvnvo4fjK"
8 baudejogos45454213 days ago"sorry, strick weak ordering"
9 meator4273587614 days ago"Hey. I'd like to have a list of references to QWizard*. I need..."
10 RonJeremy41291229210 days ago"you are just guessing stuff"
11 meicceli4115215577today"is there a ready made tool for checking cyclic dependencies be..."
12 cbreak_3213139317 days ago"jmd: yes, that's why it throws an exception"
13 lockywolf2942527123 days ago"Yeah, I believe that there are nice bindings for SQLite."
14 omom273242509 days ago"learning c++ is more frustrating)))"
15 computerquip2732428813 days ago"Surprised nobody mentioned https://github.com/microsoft/gsl"
16 karenw2726141816 days ago"Is there watsonian reason as to why we need to write operator=..."
17 lh_mouse223811323today"it is silly to require that default arguments be specified exa..."
18 snappy222233510 days ago"going to go the way of the struggling artists"
19 fiesh1811151180today"how std::vector is organizing its data..."
20 kalven181287141today"if you need more help, some code would be nice"
21 PeterNorth1815315525 days ago"you want C++ to be more expensive for no reason?"
22 jmd18218720218 days ago"Oh I thought less was a synonym"
23 InPhase17173294 days ago"RonJeremy: A trivially solved problem except that Microsoft do..."
24 bagatur15510158yesterday"I tried 98 but the project uses nullptr"
25 yes-ubuntu1514134921 days ago"Hi! Did anyone face "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lstdc++: No suc..."


These didn't make it to the top:
anachrohack (14) barometz (14) afiore (13) pipi (12) lru (10)
nightfrog (8) paul424 (7) Yakov (7) deepy (7) rbox (5)
manx (5) WeblordPepe35 (4) Inline (3) rajkosto (2) zxrom (2)
ARoxdale (2) JesusJuice (2) heston76 (2) stefanos82_ (2) stg-developer (2)
mort (2) SexoSelvagem (2) Svitkona (2) b_jonas (2) szSwitchTxRxThre (1)
lpVoidStorm (1) RazielZ (1) nightfrgg (1) osse (1) metayeti (1)

By the way, there were 2 other nicks.

Big numbers
Is yes-ubuntu stupid or just asking too many questions? 46.7% lines contained a question!
kalven didn't know that much either. 44.4% of his/her lines were questions.
The loudest one was yes-ubuntu, who yelled 40.0% of the time!
Another old yeller was PeterNorth, who shouted 11.1% of the time!
It seems that baudejogos's shift-key is hanging: 4.4% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
     <baudejogos> TIL :)))))))))

RonJeremy just forgot to deactivate his/her Caps-Lock. He/She wrote UPPERCASE 2.4% of the time.
Nobody beat anyone up. Everybody was friendly.
baudejogos brings happiness to the world. 13.3% lines contained smiling faces. :)
karenw isn't a sad person either, smiling 11.1% of the time.
cbreak seems to be sad at the moment: 5.9% lines contained sad faces. :(
RonJeremy is also a sad person, crying 4.9% of the time.
yes-ubuntu wrote the longest lines, averaging 137.4 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 79.2 letters per line.
RonJeremy wrote the shortest lines, averaging 37.7 characters per line.
kalven was tight-lipped, too, averaging 43.8 characters.
ville spoke a total of 2821 words!
ville's faithful follower, stefanos82, didn't speak so much: 2134 words.
Terminus wrote an average of 55.00 words per line.
Channel average was 13.83 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 there 35 baudejogos
2 object 35 ville
3 would 34 nightfrog
4 think 32 boru
5 address 31 ville
6 about 30 PJBoy
7 their 26 boru
8 objects 26 pipi
9 pointer 24 PJBoy
10 profiles 23 boru

Most referenced nicks
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 meator 22 Alipha
2 Kill-Animals 22 cbreak
3 cbreak_ 10 Kill-Animals
4 stefanos82 7 InPhase
5 Alipha 7 meator

Most referenced URLs
 URL Number of Uses Last Used by
1 https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/latest/libs/process/doc/html/ 2 cbreak
2 https://godbolt.org/z/EdM4Mo1r7 2 meator
3 https://godbolt.org/z/6dY5r993K 2 nightfrog
4 https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/461220/13608 1 Kill-Animals
5 https://en.cppreference.com/cpp/io/basic_ostream/print 1 PJBoy
6 https://godbolt.org/z/bvnvo4fjK 1 Alipha
7 https://godbolt.org/z/acsej9GPG 1 Alipha
8 https://godbolt.org/z/drz7ofeEx 1 Alipha
9 https://xxx.godbolt.org/z/cf4nfrYnv 1 ville
10 https://herbsutter.com/2026/06/13/brno-trip-report/ 1 stefanos82
11 https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2025/p30 1 computerquip
12 https://tinodidriksen.com/pisg/libera/logs/%23c++-general/to 1 meator
13 https://media3.locals.com/images/posts/2024-01-10/102127/102 1 computerquip
14 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LEomvWXOiI 1 meicceli
15 https://godbolt.org/z/s3j765WWo 1 PJBoy

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!
RonJeremy always lets us know what he/she's doing: 2 actions!
For example, like this:
     * RonJeremy didn't remember having any of these problems with debian. just installed a dev package and everything came together

Also, computerquip tells us what's up with 2 actions.
PJBoy talks to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 2 times!
Another lonely one was meator, who managed to hit 1 times.
computerquip has quite a potty mouth. 1.0% words were foul language.
meicceli also makes sailors blush, 0.2% of the time.

Latest Topics
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