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

Statistics generated on Monday 9 March 2026 - 0:19:44
During this 28-day reporting period, a total of 78 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.


Most active times
2.7%
338
2.1%
271
3.0%
387
3.3%
417
2.7%
338
2.3%
295
2.4%
309
3.6%
463
5.0%
631
3.6%
458
3.2%
406
4.4%
565
3.9%
493
4.1%
527
5.2%
662
4.7%
599
5.4%
683
8.1%
1037
3.7%
477
4.9%
618
4.5%
569
8.3%
1063
3.5%
452
4.1%
517
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 ville3118781448152372 days ago"lambda syntax something you've complained about?"
2 boru131507915304 days ago"Yeah, but those things don't take long to figure out."
3 masterchief12271137006 days ago"my repo : https://github.com/masterchief-max/Blue-Menace"
4 Raziel120823815777 days ago"Richardcavell, do you mean gcc 13.3?"
5 PJBoy111685209853 days ago"=> is what javascript and C# uses"
6 libfud103132367133812 days ago"I wonder if comparing the pointers then means UB"
7 _PJBoy745697494 days ago"geordi_, -c { void(*pf)() = [&](){}; }"
8 Budd65183891062yesterday"Yeah, I guess so. I don't like that uint8_t|uint8_t -> uint32_t."
9 Alipha641018361021yesterday"yes-ubuntu: private means you still might accidentally move in..."
10 mort5654143311263 days ago"libfud: the problem is, the optimizer will literally make it s..."
11 ximbau545224146 days ago"maybe take an intro course to CG before jumping on opengl"
12 Richardcavell_4791325726yesterday"Alipha, ugly, but I understand"
13 kalven47185420523yesterday"Richardcavell_: what's the question? assigning an empty struct..."
14 Kill-Animals4544104710 days ago"I don't think i've ever used [[nodiscard]]"
15 CarloWood43241987618 days ago"b_jonas: The sentence was " std::move only casts the type, so ..."
16 Guest65363635427 days ago"I am not asking for anyone to reverse engineer it"
17 pipi3216162655 days ago"now find me a good use case for protected inheritance. lol"
18 InPhase301713719yesterday"Or 4 to make it a power of 2."
19 computerquip309417492yesterday"Only reason it came up is because it's built into Zed. Trying ..."
20 rbox2412316415 days ago"selectedSC isn't initialized"
21 meicceli2312224910 days ago"that way, i can change implementations easily"
22 Richardcavell2331284847 days ago"So what's gcc/clang's support for C++23 like? Should we be ta..."
23 apteryx212192893 days ago"computerquip: maybe try ccls to compare"
24 fef2014616011 days ago"C++ or Rust , but i am scared of C++ due to UB"
25 stanrifkin2021081116 days ago"ville: I forgot to ask. `-pthread' was not in the output of `g..."


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

By the way, there were 23 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. 46.8% 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. :)
lru isn't a sad person either, smiling 10.5% 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.
InPhase wrote the longest lines, averaging 137.0 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 77.0 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 5237 words!
ville's faithful follower, Raziel, didn't speak so much: 1577 words.
MaddHatter wrote an average of 38.29 words per line.
Channel average was 13.57 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 function 57 ville
2 think 54 very_sneaky
3 would 48 barometz
4 something 42 ville
5 return 38 ville
6 things 30 boru
7 which 29 ville
8 there 28 nightfrgg
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://malus.sh/blog.html 2 ville
2 https://godbolt.org/z/PEaqcoPMx 2 yes-ubuntu
3 https://godbolt.org/z/jGo7q7EWv 1 kalven
4 https://eel.is/c++draft/basic.stc.dynamic.allocation#4.sente 1 _PJBoy
5 https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/defer-available-in- 1 ville
6 https://github.com/MaskRay/ccls/wiki/Project-Setup#cmake 1 apteryx
7 https://godbolt.org/z/zbqT6Genc 1 lru
8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet#Sound_values 1 ville
9 https://pastebin.com/raw/utbptgXD 1 Guest65
10 https://xxx.godbolt.org/z/Ts5x8dYnj 1 ville
11 https://clang.llvm.org/extra//clang-tidy/checks/modernize/us 1 drew
12 https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/modernize/use 1 Raziel
13 https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses 1 lru_
14 https://godbolt.org/z/4hf6qc73E 1 Richardcavell_
15 https://0x0.st/PAAi.txt 1 osse

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 will gladly review your code. honest :)

Also, pipi tells us what's up with 2 actions.
Guest65 talks to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 3 times!
Another lonely one was masterchief, 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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