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

Statistics generated on Tuesday 7 April 2026 - 0:17:38
During this 7-day reporting period, a total of 26 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.


Most active times
3.2%
69
4.1%
88
2.8%
59
2.5%
53
2.4%
51
2.7%
57
4.6%
98
3.2%
68
2.4%
52
3.3%
70
3.1%
65
3.4%
73
3.4%
72
3.7%
79
4.1%
88
7.9%
168
4.8%
102
4.6%
97
7.7%
164
8.1%
173
4.5%
95
4.2%
90
4.8%
102
2.6%
56
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 PJBoy98118710522 days ago"everything else there is C++98"
2 ville7621611471275yesterday"there isn't an officially defined term "provenance" in c++ sta..."
3 Alipha31116143992 days ago"you can't have an array of references"
4 AO8OS26265795 days ago"i will take a look... thanks"
5 PauGigantesco2111101482 days ago"lol wut. dafuq is going on here? :D"
6 ARoxdale216154622 days ago"KombuchaKip, Trusting cloud based companies in any capacity is..."
7 mort171163555 days ago"I wonder if the people who think the optional references use c..."
8 veverak16163332 days ago"but I am not at all worried about it replacing me :)"
9 pasteldepelo121021416 days ago"can reference wrapper be a sentinel?"
10 cart_man12121552 days ago"I think this might even be your example lol"
11 meicceli111102102 days ago"i do, albeit for rather small snippets I can't be arsed to wri..."
12 manuels11111792 days ago"yeah thats exactly what works best for me atm"
13 great_taste55293 days ago"the latest hype is AI will replace compilers and programming l..."
14 pony541203 days ago"when it cannot even be trusted to write source code"
15 kalven41111122 days ago"KombuchaKip: largely indifferent"
16 Svitkona413852 days ago"used it to debug a borderline medium size codebase a couple of..."
17 CoelhoDaPascoa333yesterday"e he he"
18 KombuchaKip321692 days ago"ARoxdale: Thanks for being candid. I'm inclined to agree."
19 Shell22412 days ago"Right, I think that’s technically cool to do."
20 Raziel11252 days ago"It can be useful to brainstorm or discuss design with them, bu..."
21 lh_mouse11144 days ago"if an array of references did exist, then what would `sizeof(a..."
22 ashafq1133 days ago"!give ashafq matrix"
23 manish11182 days ago"llms definitely shouldnt be designing any systems, if there ar..."
24 lru1134 days ago"<< sizeof(int&);"
25 metayeti1152 days ago"i code with my genitals"


These didn't make it to the top:
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Big numbers
Is cart_man stupid or just asking too many questions? 33.3% lines contained a question!
ville didn't know that much either. 26.3% of his/her lines were questions.
The loudest one was PauGigantesco, who yelled 9.5% of the time!
Another old yeller was ARoxdale, who shouted 9.5% of the time!
It seems that PauGigantesco's shift-key is hanging: 4.8% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
     <PauGigantesco> TIL :)
Nobody beat anyone up. Everybody was friendly.
pasteldepelo brings happiness to the world. 25.0% lines contained smiling faces. :)
PauGigantesco isn't a sad person either, smiling 19.0% of the time.
pasteldepelo seems to be sad at the moment: 8.3% lines contained sad faces. :(
ARoxdale wrote the longest lines, averaging 117.5 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 79.8 letters per line.
PauGigantesco wrote the shortest lines, averaging 34.2 characters per line.
PJBoy was tight-lipped, too, averaging 57.7 characters.
ville spoke a total of 1275 words!
ville's faithful follower, PJBoy, didn't speak so much: 1052 words.
Raziel wrote an average of 25.00 words per line.
Channel average was 14.61 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 safety 27 PJBoy
2 memory 23 PJBoy
3 const 19 ARoxdale
4 about 18 veverak
5 language 17 PJBoy
6 there 17 manish
7 proposal 15 PJBoy
8 would 15 Alipha
9 syntax 13 PJBoy
10 change 12 PJBoy

Most referenced nicks
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 AO8OS 6 Alipha

Most referenced URLs
 URL Number of Uses Last Used by
1 https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3057.pdf 2 ville
2 https://godbolt.org/z/PEvnx73ff 1 Alipha
3 https://eel.is/c++draft/optional.optional.ref 1 ville
4 https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/the-provenance-memo 1 ville
5 https://godbolt.org/z/1xWfvc6nh 1 cart_man
6 https://godbolt.org/z/MMb4oncxc 1 meicceli
7 https://safecpp.org/draft.html 1 PJBoy
8 https://godbolt.org/z/vqbTzx3q6 1 meicceli
9 https://github.com/alipha/cpp/blob/master/optional/optional. 1 Alipha

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 2 times!
Another lonely one was AO8OS, who managed to hit 1 times.
ville has quite a potty mouth. 0.2% words were foul language.

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