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

Statistics generated on Monday 26 October 2026 - 1:08:00
During this 28-day reporting period, a total of 40 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.


Most active times
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3.6%
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4.1%
426
3.2%
326
2.9%
298
3.1%
319
4.3%
442
5.3%
551
4.1%
427
4.0%
410
4.2%
432
3.7%
384
3.4%
346
5.1%
525
4.5%
461
4.6%
475
5.4%
554
5.0%
519
4.8%
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5.5%
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4.0%
411
2.8%
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3.8%
393
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 ville1406557092244yesterday"lh_mouse: don't demo code with geordi. it's unreadable"
2 mort792540141466yesterday"aren't exceptions already zero-overhead (except for binary siz..."
3 PJBoy71714473853yesterday"that's called a factory function"
4 tobbi3526924717 days ago"weird, a recompilation apparently fixed it"
5 fiesh2216642220 days ago"what defines a "slop project"?"
6 computerquip2213929012 days ago"So I can't give a concrete example."
7 lh_mouse221213134 days ago"I suspect not having a trailing return type means the function..."
8 DrMax22218217423 days ago"and why did you say "don't" ?"
9 kalven193971792 days ago"when people don't like it"
10 paul4241811720817 days ago"Is there any way of writing this in another way : static c..."
11 Inline1761115210 days ago"btw, I've not dived into it either"
12 Ragatanga1651116018 days ago"I wish modules would be more accessible and workable"
13 j_importer1511420910 days ago"cmake does this too, but cmake is not a fun language to write in"
14 lru101925627 days ago"https://youtu.be/OuNKBjuV7A4?t=193 "Rust is amaaAaazing, if ..."
15 meicceli10101254 days ago"anybody know why adding a trailing return type here silences -..."
16 b_jonas8816823 days ago"jmd: yes, because dynamic_cast can distinguish a public base c..."
17 FeleMeAgora8178319 days ago"thank god we have AI for doing that already"
18 Liblx771182 days ago"jmd: Thanks, looks nice. Will be tested. Thanks."
19 Svitkona73445yesterday"you can just initialize it to any value"
20 boru778620 days ago"That vibe coding is the future, I would guess."
21 [o6123836 days ago"these tenets changed the way I do C++ now :)"
22 jcarpenter25510126 days ago"Thinkin' about how to get slightly more readable error message..."
23 jmd5122642 days ago"boru: I've not met many of those."
24 cbreak4311062 days ago"Liblx: the first step to writing a neural network library from..."
25 andreyv42210613 days ago"Well, there is llvm::Twine, whose ideas seem relevant here. Bu..."


These didn't make it to the top:
pony (3) Alipha (3) rbox (2) coc0nut (2) nightfrog (2)
karenw (2) guideX (2) ac_slater (2) Terminus (2) whist (2)
npaperbot (2) Dickwolf (1) lh_mouse_ (1) KoVadim (1) TommyC (1)

Big numbers
Is kalven stupid or just asking too many questions? 31.6% lines contained a question!
paul424 didn't know that much either. 27.8% of his/her lines were questions.
The loudest one was Ragatanga, who yelled 6.2% of the time!
Another old yeller was paul424, who shouted 5.6% of the time!
It seems that PJBoy's shift-key is hanging: 1.4% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
     <PJBoy> [P3074]
Nobody beat anyone up. Everybody was friendly.
paul424 brings happiness to the world. 11.1% lines contained smiling faces. :)
tobbi isn't a sad person either, smiling 2.9% of the time.
Ragatanga seems to be sad at the moment: 12.5% lines contained sad faces. :(
mort is also a sad person, crying 1.3% of the time.
fiesh wrote the longest lines, averaging 108.8 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 82.8 letters per line.
tobbi wrote the shortest lines, averaging 44.7 characters per line.
DrMax was tight-lipped, too, averaging 45.0 characters.
ville spoke a total of 2244 words!
ville's faithful follower, mort, didn't speak so much: 1466 words.
karenw wrote an average of 38.50 words per line.
Channel average was 14.30 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 would 20 kalven
2 string 19 mort
3 there 17 j_importer
4 return 14 lh_mouse
5 about 11 kalven
6 compile 11 ville
7 exceptions 11 lh_mouse
8 contracts 10 mort
9 struct 10 lh_mouse
10 language 9 j_importer

Most referenced nicks
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 mort 5 j_importer
2 DrMax 5 Alipha

Most referenced URLs
 URL Number of Uses Last Used by
1 https://xxx.godbolt.org/z/rv5rYaehr 2 ville
2 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220228-00/?p=10 1 lh_mouse
3 https://sebsite.pw/w/20261009-strtod.html 1 ville
4 https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/177747#issuecomm 1 meicceli
5 https://wg21.link/p3074r7 1 npaperbot
6 https://godbolt.org/z/88s6nhxrM 1 Alipha
7 https://pastebin.com/ZZPpfgJZ 1 tobbi
8 https://wg21.link/p3074r7/github 1 npaperbot
9 https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127937 1 PJBoy
10 https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/1wyg6ee/measuring_the_ 1 computerquip
11 https://xxx.godbolt.org/z/43ar7f5ME 1 ville
12 https://godbolt.org/z/b6KsTe3ax 1 meicceli
13 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhIrjkxbuWI23v9cThs 1 ville
14 https://xxx.godbolt.org/z/sh94xxdxv 1 ville
15 https://github.com/edgcpp/compiler 1 kalven

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!
No actions in #C++-general!
PJBoy talks to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 1 times!
Another lonely one was paul424, who managed to hit 1 times.
mort has quite a potty mouth. 0.1% words were foul language.
PJBoy also makes sailors blush, 0.1% of the time.

Latest Topics
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