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

Statistics generated on Sunday 18 October 2026 - 1:14:37
During this 1979-day reporting period, a total of 2100 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.


Most active times
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36083
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34911
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34663
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34390
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31541
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34725
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39938
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45240
3.9%
51927
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57591
4.6%
61083
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63182
4.7%
62121
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71835
5.6%
74105
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79039
5.6%
74302
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63738
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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 PJBoy562181394826996147974549922 days ago"the strictness is gonna help the latter"
2 LordKalma51249180551881214279458262346 days ago""There were 1372 dependencies removed (in 142 libraries) this ..."
3 rpav4810028484194395995371031 days ago"trying to figure out how this code i wrote was supposed to work"
4 ville2827224441098997055134425906yesterday"a bonus read https://sebsite.pw/w/20261009-strtod.html"
5 johnny174073940493495475792090091074 days ago"do you really mean MyStruct someMethod() { return theStruct; } ?"
6 Haohmaru1623069189298141341711 days ago"...without writing it by hand"
7 Alipha156072377596270482508118 days ago"EmScarf: irc typically is low volume but high signal"
8 mort142923296685440462009442 days ago"aka "does the only sane thing", nice"
9 cbreak1217421573927595611360122 days ago"that's why I like exceptions: They can't be ignored by accident."
10 RandomReader100042712214679443521679071193 days ago"(a default constructor is just one with no params)"
11 computerquip91541906580261940491212504 days ago"So I can't give a concrete example."
12 Friithian6984994229236906418910 days ago"me, really confused why godbolt was having issues with my basi..."
13 xkoncek688714222545285969829630 days ago"CarloWood: you know about https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/ex..."
14 very_sneaky64988622014338523791567227 days ago"i'm still trying to make sense of their toolset versions"
15 CarloWood62872359322348277293932241 days ago"That should indeed be `Foo(Foo&& steal_from)`, sorry."
16 _PJBoy60122120384651160221 days ago"which only makes it more boring"
17 kalven5883108940997334125543612 days ago"when people don't like it"
18 lru559711681979101514356570919 days ago"yeah, that looks like a leak"
19 Raziel548451212562011170567869151 days ago"and also, yes, don't do that, that's gonna get you banned"
20 horribleprogram51486622148226238047178 days ago"who else were the pros here"
21 TinoDidriksen5112246315489755885682 days ago"Why do you think that's an improvement?"
22 lpapp50024701496237865849095928 days ago"ville: it is the same as posted yesterday, still the same link"
23 mkoncek40382362164438418202 days ago"extern "C" void fun(this auto*self, ...); could have been nice"
24 InPhase38308761421432138075959yesterday"paul424: Then it will fail."
25 hnOsmium00013749935182465216745398498 days ago"afaik read(2) always tries to get all the bytes you asked for,..."


These didn't make it to the top:
pulse (3577) fiesh (3186) chris64 (3004) urdh (2985) 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 (1906) great_taste (1842) stefanos82 (1839)
lh_mouse (1832) paul424 (1775) ac_slater (1747) euouae (1740) meicceli (1681)
ashafq (1640) cart_man (1611) bombastick (1564) gehn (1530) paule32 (1499)

By the way, there were 2045 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 PissaNaBussa's shift-key is hanging: 3.0% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
     <PissaNaBussa> << TYPE(1L + 1U)

horribleprogram 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 Ameisen with std::fish

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 wxWindow

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 157.9 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 66.0 letters per line.
geordi_ wrote the shortest lines, averaging 33.4 characters per line.
rbox was tight-lipped, too, averaging 33.4 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 11.68 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 would 21103 kalven
2 there 17348 j_importer
3 about 15260 PJBoy
4 think 14641 mort
5 which 14610 j_importer
6 something 10882 Inline
7 should 10515 ville
8 because 10172 ville
9 function 9762 mort
10 using 9577 mort

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 2353 mort
5 ville 2213 Budd

Most referenced URLs
 URL Number of Uses Last Used by
1 https://godbolt.org/ 32 ivy
2 https://eel.is/c++draft/ 21 PJBoy
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/hsutter/gcpp 10 LordKalma
13 https://github.com/alipha/cpp/tree/master/poly_obj 10 Alipha
14 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/value_category 10 Friithian
15 https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/04/byte-order-fallac 9 Alipha

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

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 is wxSmith'ing

Also, PJBoy tells us what's up with 374 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 438 times.
WeblordP1pe has quite a potty mouth. 0.8% words were foul language.
white_man_from_t 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 1671 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 1749 days ago at 07:55 by TinoDidriksen
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