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

Statistics generated on Friday 20 March 2026 - 0:19:49
During this 28-day reporting period, a total of 70 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.


Most active times
2.6%
308
2.1%
252
2.9%
341
2.9%
344
2.4%
285
2.0%
240
2.6%
304
3.6%
424
4.0%
474
2.8%
331
3.2%
378
4.1%
481
4.0%
476
3.8%
447
4.3%
510
5.0%
590
5.4%
641
10.1%
1196
4.0%
469
4.6%
542
4.3%
513
9.2%
1095
4.1%
481
4.7%
560
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 ville3151165141985277yesterday"i wanted it so i can get a stacktrace before aborting"
2 PJBoy156221072713582 days ago"as opposed to being a factory function"
3 masterchief122711370017 days ago"it has a compiled .exe for windows"
4 mort121526405021775 days ago"it's a terrible API but it works"
5 libfud9772367125023 days ago"the stakeholders will not tolerate abi breaking"
6 boru89305910442 days ago"Yes, I was talking about two different things."
7 Budd841949141417yesterday"If I pass a non-capturing, function-local lambda to a C librar..."
8 Alipha79828431166yesterday"mort: only local variables (which includes by-value parameters)"
9 meupau594811477yesterday":( not even the stream fails"
10 kalven55168823662yesterday"std::bind doesn't require you to bind all arguments"
11 ximbau5452241417 days ago"make a videogame or a version of your favorite app"
12 _PJBoy5411435259 days ago"well fair enough, to be clear, I'm not trying to sell you AI"
13 computerquip54101232866yesterday"Anyone ever run into an issue with IWYU / Clangd where it says..."
14 Richardcavell_407132063412 days ago"they all have the same operator()()"
15 Habbie3532302687 days ago"i don't have answers but at least your question is clear now"
16 Raziel3533245518 days ago"hexchat is one of many IRC clients and is written in C"
17 pipi32161626516 days ago"now find me a good use case for protected inheritance. lol"
18 InPhase30171371912 days ago"fef: Were you looking to program now, or in a decade or two?"
19 meicceli2912837611 days ago"how do i create a "sink"-function, that can be called with jus..."
20 ARoxdale28314116363 days ago"So std::bind is a closure?"
21 lh_mouse2521763752 days ago"and captured entities become members of the struct; when `muta..."
22 geordi_24112111294 days ago"error: cast from 'basic_string_view<char>::const_pointer' {aka..."
23 rbox241231628 days ago"step 1, write a file that does exactly whta you are asking"
24 lru23126142742 days ago"<< sizeof(std::string_view);"
25 drew233205109 days ago"wyt of this check: https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/che..."


These didn't make it to the top:
Richardcavell (22) apteryx (21) fef (20) afiore (19) maxdamage (18)
manuels (18) metayeti (16) KombuchaKip (14) rajkosto (14) b_jonas (14)
yes-ubuntu (13) [808]state (12) fiesh (12) perro (11) Svitkona (10)
Sk3letor (10) cart_man (10) Inline (9) barometz (7) MaddHatter (7)
very_sneaky (7) cbreak (7) tusko (6) xexecaoxeroso (6) snappy (5)
acsvln (5) nightfrog (5) baudejogos (4) andreyv (3) stanrifkin (3)

By the way, there were 15 other nicks.

Big numbers
Is Richardcavell stupid or just asking too many questions? 50.0% lines contained a question!
Richardcavell_ didn't know that much either. 50.0% of his/her lines were questions.
The loudest one was meupau, who yelled 5.1% of the time!
Another old yeller was apteryx, who shouted 4.8% of the time!
It seems that geordi_'s shift-key is hanging: 8.3% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
     <geordi_> B0* B0=>B1* B0~ B1~

afiore just forgot to deactivate his/her Caps-Lock. He/She wrote UPPERCASE 5.3% of the time.
Nobody beat anyone up. Everybody was friendly.
afiore brings happiness to the world. 10.5% lines contained smiling faces. :)
fef isn't a sad person either, smiling 10.0% of the time.
meupau seems to be sad at the moment: 5.1% lines contained sad faces. :(
geordi_ is also a sad person, crying 4.2% of the time.
InPhase wrote the longest lines, averaging 137.0 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 75.3 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 5277 words!
ville's faithful follower, mort, didn't speak so much: 2177 words.
rg wrote an average of 48.00 words per line.
Channel average was 13.32 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 function 76 ville
2 think 53 Richardcavell
3 would 48 barometz
4 return 45 Budd
5 something 41 drew
6 lambdas 28 PJBoy
7 object 28 ville
8 about 27 Sk3letor
9 types 27 Budd
10 which 26 Alipha

Most referenced nicks
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 Richardcavell_ 28 Alipha
2 masterchief 9 ximbau
3 kalven 9 KombuchaKip
4 ville 6 [808]state
5 PJBoy 5 ville

Most referenced URLs
 URL Number of Uses Last Used by
1 https://gitea.com/EvergreenCrypto/dfi-docs/src/branch/master 2 afiore
2 https://malus.sh/blog.html 2 ville
3 https://godbolt.org/z/PEaqcoPMx 2 yes-ubuntu
4 https://gitea.evergreencrypto.co/EvergreenCrypto/docker-fina 2 afiore
5 https://godbolt.org/z/ezn5PscMh 2 Alipha
6 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/aggregate_initial 1 stanrifkin
7 https://godbolt.org/z/fjq3dMce5 1 Alipha
8 https://interpreterbook.com/ 1 ville
9 https://mort.coffee/home/clang-compiler-hacking/ 1 mort
10 https://clang.llvm.org/extra/clang-tidy/checks/modernize/ret 1 drew
11 https://xxx.godbolt.org/z/dsqx78o1h 1 ville
12 https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/ce9M6MbEY 1 ARoxdale
13 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/numeric/random/uniform_rea 1 kalven
14 https://godbolt.org/z/vn3r3KhY6 1 PJBoy
15 https://godbolt.org/z/bf5fr1qWa 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, afiore 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 maxdamage, who managed to hit 2 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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