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

Statistics generated on Thursday 9 April 2026 - 0:19:45
During this 28-day reporting period, a total of 64 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.

Most active times

2.9%	3.4%	3.3%	3.0%	2.2%	2.0%	3.7%	4.0%	3.8%	3.8%	3.9%	4.3%	3.4%	3.3%	4.7%	6.5%	4.7%	5.5%	4.7%	6.1%	5.2%	4.9%	5.0%	4.1%
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= 18-23

Most active nicks

	Nick	Number of lines	When?	Number of Words	Last seen	Random quote
1	ville	234		3752	yesterday	"(choice is specifically about type safety)"
2	PJBoy	197		1989	4 days ago	"mort, that code looks legal to me"
3	mort	72		1185	7 days ago	"here we go ahead parsing random stack data"
4	boru	72		929	14 days ago	"I'm looking for things to bench against."
5	Alipha	60		824	4 days ago	"gasp imagine using a feature of the language ;-)"
6	PauGigantesco	37		282	4 days ago	"boru: I can compare features and such, but I chose to not do so"
7	Ramattack	37		558	16 days ago	"or it's just for resolving aliases to A or W"
8	ARoxdale	36		770	4 days ago	"mort, Your instinct is correct. Taking the address of str is c..."
9	meupau	36		320	20 days ago	"string view returns a terminated C string"
10	manuels	33		381	4 days ago	"ville what is this about?"
11	Budd	30		522	15 days ago	"Oh - I didn't know that convention. Seems like a good option."
12	Isfand	27		281	14 days ago	"Like bro. Did you read the report time."
13	AO8OS	26		579	7 days ago	"i want to write it in computer code then translate it"
14	lru	25		230	6 days ago	"just like ranges and views make use of the \| operator"
15	RemoHolandes	24		225	18 days ago	"yeah! no ctad for return types :) ctad is only for arguments"
16	fiesh	23		388	13 days ago	"ville: you might get lucky with gpp, but I don't know it well ..."
17	veverak	19		342	4 days ago	"but I am not at all worried about it replacing me :)"
18	drew	17		221	17 days ago	"I have a function that takes std::vector<std::string> const& k..."
19	masterchief	16		115	10 days ago	"Alipha: thanks for the idea"
20	paul424	15		162	yesterday	"oki that would count an answer for default ctors"
21	kalven	14		136	4 days ago	"you just did sizeof(std::string)"
22	pasteldepelo	13		142	8 days ago	"so I am sharing mort's question"
23	lh_mouse	13		203	6 days ago	"sorry I meant a 'trailing byte'."
24	cart_man	12		155	4 days ago	"This morning I read an interesting post about exceptions in De..."
25	geordi_	12		59	20 days ago	"error: ambiguating new declaration of 'float gah()'"

These didn't make it to the top:

perro (11)	computerquip (11)	meicceli (11)	Dragoon (11)	ashafq (10)
Sk3letor (10)	cbreak (7)	Richardcavell (6)	rajkosto (5)	TinoDidriksen (5)
pony (5)	Batzy (5)	great_taste (5)	Raziel (4)	bobb_ (4)
Svitkona (4)	mkoncek (4)	baudejogos (4)	KombuchaKip (3)	CoelhoDaPascoa (3)
barometz (2)	mitch0 (2)	metayeti (2)	rbox (2)	acsvln (2)
Shell (2)	manish (1)	Habbie (1)	Terminus (1)	b_jonas (1)

By the way, there were 9 other nicks.

Big numbers

Is manuels stupid or just asking too many questions? 27.3% lines contained a question!
Budd didn't know that much either. 26.7% of his/her lines were questions.

The loudest one was PauGigantesco, who yelled 10.8% of the time!
Another old yeller was fiesh, who shouted 8.7% of the time!

It seems that PauGigantesco's shift-key is hanging: 2.7% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
<PauGigantesco> TIL :)

Nobody beat anyone up. Everybody was friendly.

RemoHolandes brings happiness to the world. 12.5% lines contained smiling faces. :)
PauGigantesco isn't a sad person either, smiling 10.8% of the time.

meupau seems to be sad at the moment: 8.3% lines contained sad faces. :(
PauGigantesco is also a sad person, crying 5.4% of the time.

ARoxdale wrote the longest lines, averaging 121.9 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 74.8 letters per line.

PauGigantesco wrote the shortest lines, averaging 37.9 characters per line.
masterchief was tight-lipped, too, averaging 38.4 characters.

ville spoke a total of 3752 words!
ville's faithful follower, PJBoy, didn't speak so much: 1989 words.

Yakov wrote an average of 57.00 words per line.
Channel average was 13.35 words per line.

Most used words

	Word	Number of Uses	Last Used by
1	there	50	manish
2	string	42	ARoxdale
3	return	33	ARoxdale
4	const	31	ARoxdale
5	about	30	veverak
6	safety	27	PJBoy
7	would	26	Alipha
8	function	24	ville
9	memory	23	PJBoy
10	could	19	ARoxdale

Most referenced nicks

	Nick	Number of Uses	Last Used by
1	lh_mouse	8	Ramattack
2	ville	8	Dragoon
3	Ramattack	7	ville
4	AO8OS	6	Alipha
5	PJBoy	5	ville

Most referenced URLs

	URL	Number of Uses	Last Used by
1	https://utf8everywhere.org/#windows	2	ville
2	https://godbolt.org/z/ezn5PscMh	2	Alipha
3	https://github.com/masterchief-max/raylib-cpp-shooter	2	masterchief
4	https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3057.pdf	2	ville
5	https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html#6.2.3	1	ville
6	https://github.com/alipha/cpp/blob/master/optional/optional.	1	Alipha
7	https://godbolt.org/z/PEvnx73ff	1	Alipha
8	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/functional/bind.ht	1	ARoxdale
9	https://eel.is/c++draft/class.copy.ctor#8	1	ville
10	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string_view/d	1	meupau
11	https://godbolt.org/z/nvrPaTErT	1	ville
12	https://godbolt.org/z/d1cdbEzP6	1	ville
13	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/member_functions.	1	lh_mouse
14	https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.17149	1	ville
15	https://xxx.godbolt.org/z/TWzb1GGsd	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!

boru always lets us know what he/she's doing: 1 actions!
For example, like this:
* boru chuckles

PJBoy talks to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 2 times!
Another lonely one was AO8OS, who managed to hit 1 times.

manuels has quite a potty mouth. 0.3% words were foul language.
ville also makes sailors blush, 0.1% of the time.