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

Statistics generated on Friday 6 March 2026 - 0:16:08
During this 7-day reporting period, a total of 36 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.

Most active times

3.1%	2.3%	2.7%	2.5%	2.2%	2.5%	3.1%	3.8%	5.7%	2.8%	3.5%	4.6%	5.9%	5.5%	4.2%	4.8%	8.2%	5.7%	4.1%	5.2%	3.9%	4.0%	3.8%	4.4%
0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23

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= 12-17

= 18-23

Most active nicks

	Nick	Number of lines	When?	Number of Words	Last seen	Random quote
1	masterchief	122		700	3 days ago	"sorry i forgot this is hexchat not whatsapp"
2	ville	103		1804	yesterday	"could be term used for the generated assembly or could be term..."
3	boru	67		817	yesterday	"Anyway, better go and make some money."
4	ximbau	54		414	3 days ago	"masterchief, do you have any background in CG?"
5	_PJBoy	41		415	yesterday	"good old prompt injections"
6	Richardcavell_	34		512	2 days ago	"And can be converted to C with little effort"
7	Raziel	33		437	4 days ago	"and ymmv is "your mileage may vary" lol"
8	Alipha	24		354	2 days ago	"{ decltype([](){ cout << "hi"; }) x; x(); }"
9	PJBoy	20		213	2 days ago	"think it might have been brought up on the talk page"
10	apteryx	19		260	yesterday	"but I'll try exploring it in a near future"
11	kalven	18		216	2 days ago	"Richardcavell_: what's the question? assigning an empty struct..."
12	computerquip	14		266	yesterday	"Only place I've found to overload it is usually for an abuse o..."
13	metayeti	12		102	2 days ago	"a non-shortcircuiting && can lead to weird bugs"
14	lh_mouse	11		111	yesterday	"-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS='-ggdb -O0'"
15	[808]state	11		123	3 days ago	"ville: cppref is considered harmful?"
16	InPhase	10		284	3 days ago	"{ [](){ cout << "Directly called."; }(); } // Richardcavell_"
17	Inline	9		187	3 days ago	"badgers most beloved item, like a deer to a hunter....."
18	very_sneaky	7		190	yesterday	"just ask chatgpt to filter those out ;)"
19	MaddHatter	7		268	2 days ago	"it's way, way, beyond "just make a regex""
20	geordi_	7		66	3 days ago	"error: a variable cannot be declared 'consteval'"
21	pipi	6		53	2 days ago	"this is as mysterious as protected inheritance to me"
22	xexecaoxeroso	6		33	3 days ago	"they can be anonymous and have hidden types :)"
23	nightfrog	5		75	2 days ago	"Habbie: i need to check before checking if it exists"
24	Richardcavell	5		131	4 days ago	"I'm looking at Jason Turner episode 143. He mentions that [[al..."
25	Budd	4		62	3 days ago	"I'm trying to specialize a templated function for any integral..."

These didn't make it to the top:

Habbie (4)	snappy (4)	lru (3)	fiesh (3)	afiore (3)
stanrifkin (3)	ARoxdale (2)	nightfrgg (1)	osse (1)	cpp (1)
Shell (1)

Big numbers

Is Richardcavell_ stupid or just asking too many questions? 44.1% lines contained a question!
apteryx didn't know that much either. 31.6% of his/her lines were questions.

The loudest one was apteryx, who yelled 5.3% of the time!
Another old yeller was ville, who shouted 3.9% of the time!

It seems that masterchief's shift-key is hanging: 0.8% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
<masterchief> YMMV ??

Nobody beat anyone up. Everybody was friendly.

ximbau brings happiness to the world. 9.3% lines contained smiling faces. :)
Raziel isn't a sad person either, smiling 6.1% of the time.

ximbau seems to be sad at the moment: 3.7% lines contained sad faces. :(

ville wrote the longest lines, averaging 104.4 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 71.2 letters per line.

masterchief wrote the shortest lines, averaging 28.8 characters per line.
ximbau was tight-lipped, too, averaging 41.5 characters.

ville spoke a total of 1804 words!
ville's faithful follower, boru, didn't speak so much: 817 words.

MaddHatter wrote an average of 38.29 words per line.
Channel average was 12.59 words per line.

Most used words

	Word	Number of Uses	Last Used by
1	function	38	ville
2	lambdas	28	PJBoy
3	something	22	boru
4	would	20	nightfrog
5	lambda	17	Richardcavell_
6	think	16	very_sneaky
7	debug	15	ville
8	things	14	boru
9	operator	14	ville
10	which	13	nightfrog

Most referenced nicks

	Nick	Number of Uses	Last Used by
1	Richardcavell_	28	Alipha
2	masterchief	9	ximbau
3	ville	6	[808]state

Most referenced URLs

	URL	Number of Uses	Last Used by
1	https://malus.sh/blog.html	2	ville
2	https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327	1	ville
3	https://godbolt.org/z/eobY1b31x	1	Alipha
4	https://godbolt.org/z/qY1Yff1T8	1	Alipha
5	https://gabrielgambetta.com/computer-graphics-from-scratch/	1	ville
6	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/namin	1	MaddHatter
7	https://haqr.eu/tinyrenderer/	1	ville
8	https://gitea.com/EvergreenCrypto/dfi-docs/src/branch/master	1	afiore
9	https://craftinginterpreters.com/introduction.html	1	ville
10	https://compilerbook.com/	1	ville
11	https://github.com/masterchief-max/Blue-Menace	1	masterchief
12	https://godbolt.org/z/4hf6qc73E	1	Richardcavell_
13	https://matrix.to/#/%23docker-finance:matrix.org	1	afiore
14	https://foundationsofgameenginedev.com/	1	ville
15	https://godbolt.org/z/fjq3dMce5	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!

ximbau always lets us know what he/she's doing: 5 actions!
For example, like this:
* ximbau rewards masterchief with an internet badge
Also, Richardcavell_ tells us what's up with 1 actions.

masterchief talks to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 3 times!
Another lonely one was MaddHatter, who managed to hit 1 times.

masterchief has quite a potty mouth. 0.6% words were foul language.
ville also makes sailors blush, 0.1% of the time.