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

Statistics generated on Saturday 18 July 2026 - 0:13:46
During this 1887-day reporting period, a total of 2077 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.


Most active times
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34980		 2.6%
33096		 2.6%
33211		 2.6%
33266		 2.4%
30553		 2.6%
33839		 3.0%
38671		 3.4%
43687		 3.9%
50701		 4.3%
56319		 4.6%
59776		 4.8%
61684		 4.7%
60447		 5.4%
70214		 5.6%
72497		 6.0%
77390		 5.6%
72322		 4.8%
62018		 4.9%
63415		 5.3%
69065		 5.4%
69954		 5.0%
64705		 4.0%
51413		 3.2%
41296
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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 PJBoy55920138472683714763451891yesterday"there's various GraphViz visualisations also"
2 LordKalma51249180551881214279458262254 days ago""There were 1372 dependencies removed (in 142 libraries) this ..."
3 rpav481002848419439599537939 days ago"PJBoy: you're not thinking fourth-dimensionally"
4 ville2774524111083294685034416788yesterday"neither carbon nor cppfront does it"
5 johnny17407394049349547579209009982 days ago"you'll see them all time in C and C++"
6 Haohmaru1623069189298141341619 days ago"make it an int or switch((int)(enum))"
7 Alipha154862361591169942484434 days ago"nightfrog: i'm not sure what you mean. can you give an example?"
8 mort1343031336530367618641528 days ago"then introduce a std::optional2"
9 cbreak121312154390859351129058 days ago"static_cast is safer because it allows less"
10 RandomReader100042712214679443521679071101 days ago"leonardus - I wouldn't do that in a constructor at all, I cons..."
11 computerquip90891904580259640091204654 days ago"Surprised nobody mentioned https://github.com/microsoft/gsl"
12 Friithian69849942292369064189288 days ago"that's kinda want uuids do"
13 xkoncek688714222545285969829538 days ago"doesn't look like composition is fixing the issue"
14 very_sneaky64988622014338523791567135 days ago"yes, you should use everything available to you, esp in CI"
15 CarloWood62872359322348277293932149 days ago"ville: ok, I guess this answer is wrong then: https://stackove..."
16 _PJBoy60122120384651160129 days ago"each lambda expression has a unique unnamed type"
17 kalven579910894039303377546574 days ago"doesn't complain about what? (10+n)-10 ?"
18 lru55581159195510091435650182 days ago"allocators to the rescue I suppose"
19 Raziel54845121256201117056786959 days ago"Richardcavell, do you mean gcc 13.3?"
20 horribleprogram5148662214822623804786 days ago"paul424: also, why would that BOOST_* macro exist?"
21 TinoDidriksen51112463154797558849116 days ago"-DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN -DVC_EXTRALEAN -DNOMINMAX"
22 lpapp50024701496237865849095836 days ago"Alipha: apparently not, if you check the asm"
23 mkoncek40382362164438418110 days ago"in there anything smarter in the C-world with the purpose of v..."
24 InPhase382087614014261378757944 days ago"{ [](){ cout << "Directly called."; }(); } // Richardcavell_"
25 hnOsmium00013749935182465216745398406 days ago"sentinel being a distinct type from the iterator is new in c++20"


These didn't make it to the top:
pulse (3577) fiesh (3077) chris64 (3004) urdh (2984) cq-work (2899)
lockywolf (2766) cplusplus (2659) yolo (2611) smallville7123 (2474) antto (2275)
onizu (2151) MaddHatter (2135) aurly (2058) libfud (2048) nightstrike (1976)
Juliu (1970) lh_ideapad (1909) meator (1863) great_taste (1830) lh_mouse (1780)
ac_slater (1747) euouae (1740) paul424 (1704) stefanos82 (1691) meicceli (1641)
ashafq (1640) cart_man (1611) bombastick (1564) gehn (1530) paule32 (1499)

By the way, there were 2022 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: 3.0% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
     <horribleprogram> RIP
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 anyone with anything
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 with a std::fish
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. :(
small is also a sad person, crying 4.6% of the time.
npaperbot wrote the longest lines, averaging 157.7 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 65.9 letters per line.
rbox wrote the shortest lines, averaging 33.3 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.
RelaxNCode wrote an average of 67.00 words per line.
Channel average was 11.66 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 would 20935 baudejogos
2 There 17253 interop_madness
3 about 15141 Shell
4 think 14585 Shell
5 which 14480 manx
6 something 10814 ville
7 Should 10476 manx
8 because 10107 karenw
9 function 9665 InPhase
10 using 9532 baudejogos

Most referenced nicks
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 PJBoy 4643 yes-ubuntu
2 LordKalma 3501 ville
3 rpav 3477 JeffH
4 Alipha 2339 meator
5 ville 2201 karenw

Most referenced URLs
 URL Number of Uses Last Used by
1 https://godbolt.org/ 32 ivy
2 https://eel.is/c++draft/ 20 ville
3 https://xkcd.com/927/ 17 snowyeti
4 https://en.cppreference.com/w/ 15 ville
5 https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy 13 ville
6 https://github.com/nlohmann/json 13 chris64
7 https://wolchok.org/posts/parameter-passing/ 12 ville
8 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/variant/visit 12 kalven
9 https://www.learncpp.com/ 11 ville
10 https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Diagnostic-Pragmas.html 11 ville
11 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support 11 chris64
12 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/value_category 10 Friithian
13 https://github.com/alipha/cpp/tree/master/poly_obj 10 Alipha
14 https://github.com/hsutter/gcpp 10 LordKalma
15 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support/20 9 meicceli

Other interesting numbers
Juliu wasn't very popular, getting kicked 9 times!
For example, like this:
     *** Juliu was kicked by cbreak
JScript seemed to be hated too: 2 kicks were received.
ville is either insane or just a fair op, kicking a total of 19 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 gives lru some 'o-o'
Also, PJBoy tells us what's up with 371 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 435 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 1579 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 1657 days ago at 07:55 by TinoDidriksen
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