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

Statistics generated on Monday 30 March 2026 - 0:14:44
During this 1776-day reporting period, a total of 2041 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.


Most active times
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33827
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31848
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32024
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29379
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32513
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36885
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41629
3.9%
49066
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54695
4.6%
57871
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59708
4.7%
58382
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68413
5.6%
70200
6.0%
74851
5.6%
70086
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60027
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61576
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66857
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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 PJBoy555391381126645146124480573 days ago"> use [...] explicit L"" literals"
2 LordKalma51249180551881214279458262143 days ago"drew, also, let me say that microcontrollers can definitely ha..."
3 rpav481002848419439599537828 days ago"hrm i forget how i was thinking a template switch could look"
4 ville27148237710648920549184069843 days ago"ok the whole internet is now unusable as a result"
5 johnny17407394049349547579209009871 days ago"you'll see them all time in C and C++"
6 Haohmaru1623069189298141341508 days ago"oh sh*t, i'm in the wrong channel"
7 Alipha153502356583069472462327 days ago"Budd: https://godbolt.org/z/ezn5PscMh"
8 mort1334231336503361518504214 days ago"but it makes sense that return is a move"
9 cbreak1201421363831591311115212 days ago"you could use std::fill with a std::back_inserter"
10 RandomReader10004271221467944352167907990 days ago"(obvious long-term tradeoffs apply)"
11 computerquip90141900580257839561193643 days ago"Even simple structures 🤔 Seems kinda silly."
12 Friithian69849942292369064189177 days ago"what does linking that prove?"
13 xkoncek688714222545285969829427 days ago"i am guessing there is a difference in span, not pair"
14 very_sneaky6498862201433852379156724 days ago"time to join the unix master race"
15 CarloWood6287235932234827729393238 days ago"Can std::make_unique fail and return 'null'?"
16 _PJBoy6012212038465116018 days ago"cross compiling is nothing new"
17 kalven5734108239790933465413310 days ago"using exceptions for logic errors isn't great"
18 lru5503114819539941408643702 days ago"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W0vE_VKokY for the keeners"
19 Raziel5478512125620081702677937 days ago"Richardcavell, do you mean gcc 13.3?"
20 horribleprogram5147662214722623804355 days ago"paul424: i think MSVC has the "safe" versions with the _s"
21 TinoDidriksen511124631547975588495 days ago"meicceli, the simplest way is to build packages on and for eac..."
22 lpapp50024701496237865849095725 days ago"Alipha: apparently not, if you check the asm"
23 mkoncek40342358164438321374 days ago"i mean in an ABI breaking way"
24 InPhase380087614014081376754134 days ago"Well, we all know it, or beginners will eventually learn it. :)"
25 hnOsmium00013749935182465216745398295 days ago"automatic enum to/from string!"


These didn't make it to the top:
pulse (3577) fiesh (3027) chris64 (3004) urdh (2984) cq-work (2899)
lockywolf (2737) cplusplus (2659) yolo (2611) smallville7123 (2474) antto (2275)
onizu (2151) MaddHatter (2125) aurly (2058) libfud (2009) nightstrike (1976)
Juliu (1970) lh_ideapad (1909) great_taste (1825) meator (1769) ac_slater (1747)
euouae (1740) lh_mouse (1716) paul424 (1665) ashafq (1630) cart_man (1599)
meicceli (1585) bombastick (1564) gehn (1530) paule32 (1499) rbox (1418)

By the way, there were 1986 other nicks.

Big numbers
Is Iarfen stupid or just asking too many questions? 47.6% lines contained a question!
stolen didn't know that much either. 46.5% of his/her lines were questions.
The loudest one was Iarfen, who yelled 17.1% of the time!
Another old yeller was lmat, who shouted 13.9% of the time!
It seems that horribleprogram's shift-key is hanging: 3.1% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
     <horribleprogram> HA

PissaNaBussa just forgot to deactivate his/her Caps-Lock. He/She wrote UPPERCASE 3.0% of the time.
Haohmaru is a very aggressive person. He/She attacked others 26 times.
For example, like this:
     * Haohmaru slaps rpav with <details.txt>

lh_ideapad can't control his/her aggressions, either. He/She picked on others 9 times.
Poor PJBoy, nobody likes him/her. He/She was attacked 9 times.
For example, like this:
     * Haohmaru slaps PJBoy and rpav with embedded

LordKalma seems to be unliked too. He/She got beaten 5 times.
Shell brings happiness to the world. 19.6% lines contained smiling faces. :)
smallvil_ isn't a sad person either, smiling 14.7% of the time.
CarloWood seems to be sad at the moment: 6.4% lines contained sad faces. :(
pakcjo is also a sad person, crying 4.7% of the time.
npaperbot wrote the longest lines, averaging 157.6 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 65.8 letters per line.
rbox wrote the shortest lines, averaging 33.4 characters per line.
Burusera was tight-lipped, too, averaging 34.0 characters.
rpav spoke a total of 599537 words!
rpav's faithful follower, LordKalma, didn't speak so much: 458262 words.
zibolo_ wrote an average of 67.00 words per line.
Channel average was 11.65 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 would 20791 ville
2 there 17171 boru
3 about 15027 boru
4 think 14530 Richardcavell
5 which 14430 boru
6 something 10792 boru
7 should 10450 PJBoy
8 because 10074 metayeti
9 function 9659 ville
10 using 9505 Yakov

Most referenced nicks
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 PJBoy 4638 ville
2 LordKalma 3501 ville
3 rpav 3477 JeffH
4 Alipha 2332 cart_man
5 ville 2180 Dragoon

Most referenced URLs
 URL Number of Uses Last Used by
1 https://godbolt.org/ 32 ivy
2 https://eel.is/c++draft/ 18 ville
3 https://xkcd.com/927/ 17 snowyeti
4 https://en.cppreference.com/w/ 15 ville
5 https://github.com/nlohmann/json 13 chris64
6 https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy 13 ville
7 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/variant/visit 12 kalven
8 https://wolchok.org/posts/parameter-passing/ 12 ville
9 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support 11 chris64
10 https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Diagnostic-Pragmas.html 11 ville
11 https://www.learncpp.com/ 11 ville
12 https://github.com/alipha/cpp/tree/master/poly_obj 10 Alipha
13 https://github.com/hsutter/gcpp 10 LordKalma
14 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/value_category 10 Friithian
15 http://josuttis.com/cpp/c++initialization.pdf 9 LordKalma

Other interesting numbers
Juliu wasn't very popular, getting kicked 9 times!
For example, like this:
     *** Juliu was kicked by TinoDidriksen

ColonelJ seemed to be hated too: 2 kicks were received.
ville is either insane or just a fair op, kicking a total of 17 people!
ville's faithful follower, TinoDidriksen, kicked about 5 people.
Strange, no op was given on #C++-general!
Wow, no op was taken on #C++-general!
Haohmaru always lets us know what he/she's doing: 514 actions!
For example, like this:
     * Haohmaru slaps вилле with нещо

Also, PJBoy tells us what's up with 370 actions.
LordKalma talks to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 521 times!
Another lonely one was PJBoy, who managed to hit 430 times.
white_man_from_t has quite a potty mouth. 0.8% words were foul language.
WeblordP1pe also makes sailors blush, 0.8% of the time.

Latest Topics
C++ algorithms, libraries, practices, projects, tools. || pastes: https://godbolt.org || stats/logs: https://i.pjj.cc/lb || channels: #c++ #c++-basic #c++-social #geordi 1468 days ago at 08:10 by ville
C++ algorithms, libraries, practices, projects, tools. || pastes: https://wandbox.org/ || stats/logs: https://i.pjj.cc/lb || channels: #c++ #c++-basic #c++-social #geordi 1546 days ago at 07:55 by TinoDidriksen
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