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

Statistics generated on Wednesday 8 April 2026 - 0:16:56
During this 7-day reporting period, a total of 26 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.


Most active times
3.2%
76
4.2%
99
2.9%
68
2.4%
58
2.4%
57
2.6%
61
4.4%
104
3.3%
79
2.5%
59
3.1%
75
3.8%
90
3.5%
84
3.5%
84
4.1%
97
4.2%
99
7.8%
186
4.9%
116
4.7%
111
7.2%
172
7.9%
187
4.2%
101
4.3%
102
4.6%
110
2.7%
64
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"pattern matching alone is like a huge deal for C++"
2 ville7621611471275yesterday"don't many of the ai include randomness somewhere in the proce..."
3 Alipha31116143992 days ago"{} struct Foo { int& x; }; // that doesn't stop reference memb..."
4 AO8OS26265795 days ago"i will take a look... thanks"
5 PauGigantesco2111101482 days ago"{ int a = 1; array<int &,1> y{{a}}; }"
6 ARoxdale216154622 days ago"mort, Your instinct is correct. Taking the address of str is c..."
7 mort171163555 days ago"and you end up with an array<int, 3>, which is fine"
8 veverak16163332 days ago"do I let the clanker write my code? some of it yes"
9 pasteldepelo121021416 days ago"that seems like a good reason for me :)"
10 cart_man12121552 days ago"I think this might even be your example lol"
11 manuels11111792 days ago"maybe writing unit tests may give another speedup"
12 meicceli111102102 days ago"i do, albeit for rather small snippets I can't be arsed to wri..."
13 pony541203 days ago"when it cannot even be trusted to write source code"
14 great_taste55293 days ago"the latest hype is AI will replace compilers and programming l..."
15 kalven41111122 days ago"KombuchaKip: largely indifferent"
16 Svitkona413852 days ago"references don't necessarily exist at runtime"
17 KombuchaKip321692 days ago"ARoxdale: Thanks for being candid. I'm inclined to agree."
18 CoelhoDaPascoa333yesterday"e he he"
19 Shell22412 days ago"Right, I think that’s technically cool to do."
20 ashafq1133 days ago"!give ashafq matrix"
21 rg1186 days ago"Why adding support if we have std::reference_wrapper."
22 Raziel11252 days ago"It can be useful to brainstorm or discuss design with them, bu..."
23 manish11182 days ago"llms definitely shouldnt be designing any systems, if there ar..."
24 lh_mouse11144 days ago"if an array of references did exist, then what would `sizeof(a..."
25 lru1134 days ago"<< sizeof(int&);"


These didn't make it to the top:
metayeti (1)

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 ARoxdale, who yelled 9.5% of the time!
Another old yeller was PauGigantesco, 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 return 12 ARoxdale

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/1xWfvc6nh 1 cart_man
3 https://godbolt.org/z/PEvnx73ff 1 Alipha
4 https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2025/06/30/the-provenance-memo 1 ville
5 https://github.com/alipha/cpp/blob/master/optional/optional. 1 Alipha
6 https://godbolt.org/z/vqbTzx3q6 1 meicceli
7 https://safecpp.org/draft.html 1 PJBoy
8 https://godbolt.org/z/MMb4oncxc 1 meicceli
9 https://eel.is/c++draft/optional.optional.ref 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!
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 meicceli, who managed to hit 1 times.
ville has quite a potty mouth. 0.2% words were foul language.

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