#C++ @ Libera.chat stats by TinoDidriksen

Statistics generated on Saturday 21 February 2026 - 0:10:16
During this 1740-day reporting period, a total of 3190 different nicks were represented on #C++.


Most active times
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45621
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42571
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42298
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45824
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50295
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50574
3.8%
51187
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50663
4.0%
53989
4.3%
58486
4.1%
56078
4.5%
61147
4.8%
64707
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70368
5.1%
69432
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64788
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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 PJBoy16182303579024899142133yesterday"pretty sure the committee was done in 2023"
2 Alipha15768276259556883256698yesterday"Richardcavell: that's a no"
3 ville130011314383348562998185445yesterday"stefanos82: one man's basic is another mans's advanced and so on"
4 Eelis699070512002854223196949163 days ago"(example from josuttis on the reflector)"
5 RandomReader53161796885276235992371993 days ago"that function would need to have Foo defined first, as usual"
6 CarloWood4491314691146920176449285 days ago"How can I get the type `A` from the type `A::B`, where `A` is ..."
7 cbreak430918175014501928394024 days ago"do people nowadays still learn about Hoare Triples?"
8 anyone39614557431454130945448693 days ago"not only that, but AFAICT, #line is a *product* of some prepro..."
9 TinoDidriksen299977135392264733735376 days ago"Define instantiate? Do you want the member to conditionally no..."
10 AliceMeows289028468599392830677197 days ago"xor is generally preferred by compilers"
11 chris64255978514703003099815 days ago"or a section of the standard at hand that discusses this"
12 fluter2289503100075318584401 days ago"Do I have to put it into header files"
13 InPhase22295938017834273060 days ago"xcvb: Best to go with "don't unless it's explicitly okay" on t..."
14 kalven21445421783381086199442 days ago"yes, you'd be returning a reference to a local"
15 _PJBoy18896711196169082 days ago"so it behaves fairly normally"
16 faLUKE18453098357687731268993 days ago"so, fiesh, move is not "only a cast"."
17 fiesh1744677825221260212 days ago"that's sensible engineering for you"
18 bpalmer170059118430562027025960 days ago"wait, constinit variables are not automatically constexpr ?"
19 rbox1491786137539972255 days ago"windows is garbage and developing on windows is super garbage"
20 jbo14851684069857918432194 days ago"how would one solve this properly?"
21 Oxyd1457152151612542211412 days ago"Sure, write up a proposal and submit it. Good luck."
22 xcvb13018420749651416348yesterday"24 is much more readily divisible"
23 urdh12854857514714836197 days ago"you'd probably get a better answer from #C"
24 Raziel12392052283864201525329 days ago"ah, so msvc's exceptions are 24 bytes then. lovely"
25 Zogatribe1210123447615997060 days ago"because C is not a strict subset of C++"


These didn't make it to the top:
megaTherion (1184) xardas (1150) vancz (1104) zz (1091) rpav (1008)
veverak (977) cplusplus (967) Hash (859) teut (855) wakeup (843)
computerquip (833) ujjawalgupta (804) tct (721) BurumaSerafuku (689) John99 (682)
rajkosto (676) imMute (653) horribleprogram (618) Gamah (590) Guest58 (576)
[o (572) constxd (566) Feuermagier (555) drew (548) glguy (545)
Eelis_ (541) LunarJetman (535) zipper (528) evangeline (526) euouae (512)

By the way, there were 3135 other nicks.

Big numbers
Is marshmallow stupid or just asking too many questions? 56.0% lines contained a question!
Richardcavell didn't know that much either. 46.1% of his/her lines were questions.
The loudest one was Zoinkers, who yelled 15.4% of the time!
Another old yeller was marshmallow, who shouted 10.3% of the time!
It seems that FAT1337's shift-key is hanging: 5.1% of the time he/she wrote UPPERCASE.
For example, like this:
     <FAT1337> MISS HIM

RokerHRO just forgot to deactivate his/her Caps-Lock. He/She wrote UPPERCASE 4.3% of the time.
FAT1337 is a very aggressive person. He/She attacked others 4 times.
For example, like this:
     * FAT1337 slaps FAT1337 with a rainbow trout

PJBoy can't control his/her aggressions, either. He/She picked on others 2 times.
Poor anyone, nobody likes him/her. He/She was attacked 3 times.
For example, like this:
     * PJBoy slaps anyone with a series of trigraphs

FAT1337 seems to be unliked too. He/She got beaten 2 times.
ntat brings happiness to the world. 22.1% lines contained smiling faces. :)
RokerHRO isn't a sad person either, smiling 16.6% of the time.
RokerHRO seems to be sad at the moment: 9.1% lines contained sad faces. :(
CarloWood is also a sad person, crying 6.9% of the time.
npaperbot wrote the longest lines, averaging 168.9 letters per line.
#C++ average was 70.7 letters per line.
FAT1337 wrote the shortest lines, averaging 22.4 characters per line.
geordi_ was tight-lipped, too, averaging 27.4 characters.
Alipha spoke a total of 256698 words!
Alipha's faithful follower, ville, didn't speak so much: 185445 words.
ignorand wrote an average of 79.71 words per line.
Channel average was 12.43 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 would 7872 kx89
2 function 7049 Alipha
3 there 6528 stefanos82
4 which 4776 sway
5 class 3978 j`ey
6 about 3907 SamuelMarks
7 because 3232 ximbau
8 using 3028 xcvb
9 think 2889 _PJBoy
10 const 2843 stefanos82

Most referenced nicks
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 a 66094 Alipha
2 this 14136 yes-ubuntu
3 some 4026 kx89
4 Alipha 2299 yes-ubuntu
5 void 1202 PJBoy

Most referenced URLs
 URL Number of Uses Last Used by
1 https://godbolt.org/ 28 presonic
2 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/value_category 17 atrigent
3 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/utility/variant/visit 15 Eelis
4 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support 13 izabera
5 https://github.com/alipha/cpp/tree/master/endian 12 Alipha
6 https://eel.is/c++draft/ 12 ville
7 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/lambda 12 euouae
8 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/constraints 11 chris64
9 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector/vector 11 sord937
10 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/eval_order 10 xcvb
11 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/new 10 bpalmer
12 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector 9 xcvb
13 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/range-for 9 YmrDtnJu
14 https://en.cppreference.com/w/ 9 smol-hors
15 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3106110/what-is-move-sem 9 faLUKE

Other interesting numbers
TorTor wasn't very popular, getting kicked 3 times!
For example, like this:
     *** TorTor was kicked by TinoDidriksen

frex seemed to be hated too: 3 kicks were received.
ville is either insane or just a fair op, kicking a total of 26 people!
ville's faithful follower, TinoDidriksen, kicked about 21 people.
Strange, no op was given on #C++!
Wow, no op was taken on #C++!
PJBoy always lets us know what he/she's doing: 86 actions!
For example, like this:
     * PJBoy still doesn't vibe with std::expected

Also, Alipha tells us what's up with 49 actions.
PJBoy talks to him/herself a lot. He/She wrote over 5 lines in a row 130 times!
Another lonely one was CarloWood, who managed to hit 122 times.
blahblahblah has quite a potty mouth. 2.0% words were foul language.
APic also makes sailors blush, 1.3% of the time.

Latest Topics
Standard C++ specifications and code. || Current standard: ISO/IEC 14882:2024 (a.k.a. C++24) || https://isocpp.org/faq || pastes: https://godbolt.org || stats/logs: https://i.pjj.cc/lb || other channels: #c++-general #c++-basic #c++-social #geordi 468 days ago at 09:28 by ville
Standard C++ specifications and code. || Current standard: ISO/IEC 14882:2023 (a.k.a. C++23) || https://isocpp.org/faq || pastes: https://godbolt.org || stats/logs: https://i.pjj.cc/lb || other channels: #c++-general #c++-basic #c++-social #geordi 588 days ago at 09:09 by TinoDidriksen
Standard C++ specifications and code. || Current standard: ISO/IEC 14882:2020 (a.k.a. C++20) || https://isocpp.org/faq || pastes: https://godbolt.org || stats/logs: https://i.pjj.cc/lb || other channels: #c++-general #c++-basic #c++-social #geordi 1432 days ago at 08:08 by ville
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