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

Statistics generated on Wednesday 21 January 2026 - 0:22:46
During this 1709-day reporting period, a total of 2015 different nicks were represented on #C++-general.


Most active times
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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 PJBoy5527713765264661457544567712 days ago"I haven't used anything requiring Java since I was in uni"
2 LordKalma5124918055188121427945826276 days ago"the language just says "store a sequence""
3 rpav481002848419439599537761 days ago"no i was thinking more variadic case expansion i think"
4 ville2659723641050289474784397928yesterday"https://xxx.godbolt.org/z/Eb8xzv9dj"
5 johnny17407394049349547579209009804 days ago"then again, i already do that"
6 Haohmaru1623069189298141341441 days ago"where my_struct contains a few strings and some ints"
7 Alipha152272344578068862442008 days ago"ol0ck: so std::atomic<T>* doesn't work because you get a T* fr..."
8 mort1320731046458355918270026 days ago"well that's true for everything libc++ and libstdc++ provides"
9 cbreak1199921363831589811098820 days ago"you could use std::fill with a std::back_inserter"
10 RandomReader10004271221467944352167907923 days ago"also https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/"
11 computerquip895518885802566392111847230 days ago"It does, I ironically don't like them"
12 Friithian69849942292369064189110 days ago"And what is the goal with this library?"
13 xkoncek688714222545285969829360 days ago"doesn't look like composition is fixing the issue"
14 very_sneaky64908622013337823791373140 days ago"yes, you should use everything available to you, esp in CI"
15 CarloWood6244235932232427539305654 days ago"gave an intelligent answer."
16 _PJBoy588220833753498178 days ago"that's exactly what I was hoping to find"
17 kalven562910593888963286530332 days ago"paul424: vector has a constructor that takes the size."
18 lru54471144194097713866372410 days ago"cart_man: https://github.com/compiler-explorer/compiler-explorer"
19 Raziel5344503117019701701659562 days ago"for games I've been using entt but it's been a while"
20 horribleprogram5140662214722623800249 days ago"Alipha: and what is T in this case"
21 TinoDidriksen5106245815479755880035 days ago"Most are either US or EU, so either early morning or mid workd..."
22 lpapp50024701496237865849095658 days ago"lru: set the bool to true when added"
23 mkoncek40342358164438321307 days ago"extern "C" void fun(this auto*self, ...); could have been nice"
24 InPhase3767859139139513747462268 days ago"That should parse in the normal way."
25 hnOsmium00013749935182465216745398228 days ago"right, pre-lambda class inside function was the only way to do..."


These didn't make it to the top:
pulse (3577) urdh (2984) chris64 (2982) fiesh (2978) cq-work (2899)
lockywolf (2737) cplusplus (2659) yolo (2611) smallville7123 (2474) antto (2275)
onizu (2151) MaddHatter (2118) aurly (2058) nightstrike (1976) Juliu (1970)
lh_ideapad (1909) libfud (1906) great_taste (1822) meator (1769) ac_slater (1747)
euouae (1740) lh_mouse (1664) ashafq (1629) cart_man (1589) paul424 (1588)
bombastick (1564) meicceli (1537) gehn (1530) paule32 (1499) rbox (1391)

By the way, there were 1960 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 smallvil_'s shift-key is hanging: 3.0% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
     <smallvil_> XD

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 betelgeuse9 with a 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:
     * CharutoDeCarne slaps PJBoy

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 157.4 letters per line.
#C++-general average was 65.8 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.
zibolo_ wrote an average of 67.00 words per line.
Channel average was 11.63 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 would 20722 davros1
2 there 17080 lh_mouse
3 about 14993 Habbie
4 think 14461 ville
5 which 14383 Habbie
6 something 10732 lru
7 should 10432 Alipha
8 because 10052 ville
9 function 9566 ville
10 using 9464 lru

Most referenced nicks
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 PJBoy 4633 cart_man
2 LordKalma 3501 ville
3 rpav 3477 JeffH
4 Alipha 2332 cart_man
5 ville 2158 fiesh

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://wolchok.org/posts/parameter-passing/ 12 ville
8 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/variant/visit 12 kalven
9 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support 11 chris64
10 https://www.learncpp.com/ 11 ville
11 https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Diagnostic-Pragmas.html 11 ville
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 ville

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 removes two of pulse's overtones

Also, PJBoy tells us what's up with 369 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.
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.

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