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

Statistics generated on Saturday 12 September 2026 - 0:13:58
During this 28-day reporting period, a total of 42 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.


Most active times
2.9%
307
4.2%
437
4.6%
482
3.2%
335
2.8%
291
2.6%
270
3.7%
391
4.4%
461
2.8%
292
3.3%
345
3.8%
394
4.5%
469
4.4%
462
4.6%
485
4.0%
414
4.2%
443
5.4%
564
4.7%
491
4.9%
509
6.1%
633
4.9%
514
3.9%
404
4.5%
470
3.9%
411
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 mort21670146394910 days ago"yates: your best bet is to include the headers you use"
2 ville156182640722576yesterday"i don't think the rules around any of this are really complete"
3 PirocaGigante86671910028 days ago"this would never show up in my codebases. ever"
4 PJBoy793742840yesterday"I don't think gdb has such a tool (although you could try #gdb )"
5 fiesh45172788814 days ago"you had tool calling issues with Kimi K3?!?"
6 Alipha42616206562 days ago"and actually, 0 could be returned on line 16, i realize just now"
7 stefanos8241281346211 days ago"but isn't the purpose of pure virtual functions to create an a..."
8 guideX353551714 days ago"well, they were working, but they weren't useful"
9 DrMax34925354yesterday"so it should fit in the various caches nicely"
10 Budd30312515366 days ago"ville: can you explain why, and tell me what you prefer?"
11 kalven241592112 days ago"there are also a bunch of annotations"
12 yates2172122402 days ago"google/ai says this is why: https://bpa.st/AQIQ - is that right?"
13 PastaSenpai1918116217 days ago"fiesh: the next one is... "making a world a better place""
14 computerquip164121622 days ago"Am I crazy or is GNU's ftpmirror constantly giving bad mirrors"
15 boru157815411 days ago"Either way, interesting project."
16 cbreak144102822 days ago"OnibusDaSuruba: I recently had to deal with a garbage codebase..."
17 lru148622324 days ago"what possible advantage is it to use the new syntax for functi..."
18 j_importer11291582 days ago"ville: probably loading a package immediately"
19 jmd118311811 days ago"I know. Like I say, bt will give you a complete backtrace."
20 OnibusDaSuruba1046774 days ago"design an ownership model and stick with it"
21 meator9915820 days ago"Is this a common pattern? It's the first time I saw it."
22 andreyv82151116 days ago"That type is already there. You can use std::vector<char> for ..."
23 barometz82512226 days ago"but that probably messes up parallel execution at that layer"
24 coc0nut725912 days ago"thx both of you for answer!"
25 InPhase668321 days ago"Budd: Well you can use move-only elements."


These didn't make it to the top:
Terminus (6) metayeti (6) nightfrog (5) lh_mouse (4) jbo (4)
baudejogos (3) Yakov (3) TommyC (3) militantorc (2) geordi_ (2)
b_jonas (2) ironowl (2) EmScarf (2) xeca (1) sprout (1)
grid_guy (1) urdh (1)

Big numbers
Is Budd stupid or just asking too many questions? 40.0% lines contained a question!
yates didn't know that much either. 33.3% of his/her lines were questions.
The loudest one was stefanos82, who yelled 9.8% of the time!
Another old yeller was boru, who shouted 6.7% of the time!
It seems that PirocaGigante's shift-key is hanging: 1.2% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
     <PirocaGigante> BUT

mort just forgot to deactivate his/her Caps-Lock. He/She wrote UPPERCASE 0.5% of the time.
Nobody beat anyone up. Everybody was friendly.
PastaSenpai brings happiness to the world. 10.5% lines contained smiling faces. :)
boru isn't a sad person either, smiling 6.7% of the time.
PJBoy seems to be sad at the moment: 5.1% lines contained sad faces. :(
stefanos82 is also a sad person, crying 4.9% of the time.
fiesh wrote the longest lines, averaging 109.7 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 83.6 letters per line.
PastaSenpai wrote the shortest lines, averaging 46.7 characters per line.
kalven was tight-lipped, too, averaging 50.5 characters.
mort spoke a total of 3949 words!
mort's faithful follower, ville, didn't speak so much: 2576 words.
Yakov wrote an average of 29.67 words per line.
Channel average was 14.75 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 would 47 cbreak
2 function 39 mort
3 which 38 mort
4 pointer 32 ville
5 types 30 ville
6 about 23 mort
7 virtual 21 mort
8 state 20 Alipha
9 moved-from 20 mort
10 thread 19 Terminus

Most referenced nicks
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 mort 27 Alipha
2 Alipha 6 mort
3 ville 5 Budd
4 yates 5 ville
5 lru 5 ville

Most referenced URLs
 URL Number of Uses Last Used by
1 https://eel.is/c++draft/thread.lock.unique.mod#lib:release,u 2 ville
2 https://x.com/rui314/status/2094677980857680052 1 stefanos82
3 https://bpa.st/THEQ 1 yates
4 https://godbolt.org/z/1oYTYPYEn 1 ironowl
5 https://eel.is/c++draft/unique.ptr.single.asgn#4.sentence-1 1 ville
6 https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/08/12/cpp26-indirect 1 stefanos82
7 https://pastebin.com/raw/DqgMHyhf 1 guideX
8 https://godbolt.org/z/r3TTffG1e 1 mort
9 https://eel.is/c++draft/expr.call 1 ville
10 https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/bugprone/use- 1 kalven
11 https://godbolt.org/z/v6hnM9cxY 1 Alipha
12 https://i.imgflip.com/b0dxco.jpg 1 computerquip
13 https://paste.debian.net/hidden/83b15a45 1 stefanos82
14 https://marcinzukowski.github.io/pivco-huffman/ 1 ville
15 https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1950/#section-2 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!
PirocaGigante always lets us know what he/she's doing: 4 actions!
For example, like this:
     * PirocaGigante uses std::variant to implement the State Pattern

Also, Alipha tells us what's up with 1 actions.
mort talks to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 4 times!
Another lonely one was stefanos82, who managed to hit 1 times.
Nobody is foul-mouthed in #C++-general! Get out much?

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