#C++ @ Libera.chat stats by TinoDidriksen

Statistics generated on Tuesday 5 May 2026 - 0:32:00
During this 1813-day reporting period, a total of 3247 different nicks were represented on #C++.


Most active times
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47430
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44092
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43663
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47163
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52697
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52452
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55998
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60676
4.1%
57994
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63366
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67455
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73440
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71639
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67977
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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 PJBoy163213049794249831436927 days ago"you can requires the negation of a concept"
2 Alipha158872778598469552588104 days ago"Guest79: everyone who uses irc should use a smart join/part fi..."
3 ville133241320398249543068190971yesterday"b_jonas: yes. everything(?) in libc++ is in a version namespace"
4 Eelis699070512002854223196949236 days ago"(which i fully expect will be added at some point)"
5 RandomReader531617968852762359923711066 days ago"so e.g. if you forgot to make the destructor virtual"
6 CarloWood44913146911469201764492158 days ago"In global namespace (or namespace N, or anywhere random), I do:"
7 cbreak4339183750146819383982628 days ago"There are probably better higher-level APIs for many usecases"
8 anyone39614557431454130945448766 days ago"you are pretty much always using RAII in C++ (as soon as you i..."
9 TinoDidriksen299977135392264733735449 days ago"Not quite? It says "it is worth pursuing a compatible path fir..."
10 AliceMeows289028468599392830677270 days ago"In this specific case there is no difference between the two"
11 chris64255978514703003099888 days ago"SamuelMarks: cool, do you use clang-tidy components or the AST..."
12 fluter2289503100075318584474 days ago"is gdb support such cases?"
13 InPhase2272593804823435445 days ago"It doesn't need to be a pristine image."
14 kalven21875491813411116203294 days ago"and just adding a default constructor is out of the question?"
15 _PJBoy191969412031718957 days ago"feel like that's a pretty lame inconsistency"
16 faLUKE184530983576877312681066 days ago"Alipha: no, coherently to what you just said"
17 fiesh17626828372222626611 days ago"ya1ov: ah, then it doesn't allocate, good to know"
18 bpalmer1700591184305620270251033 days ago"e.g., https://godbolt.org/z/9c16MbanE"
19 rbox150678813755298313 days ago"they dont do calculations..."
20 jbo14851684069857918432267 days ago"ville, would be interested to know more about 1.5 fringeness"
21 Oxyd1481154151630546215363 days ago"That doesn't do anything, though."
22 xcvb143610024352357018279yesterday"Is it valid to treat a zero-initialized iterator as "iterator ..."
23 urdh12854857514714836270 days ago"question is a bit unclear, do you have a testcase showing what..."
24 Raziel12632052284064241552164 days ago"for example, in your case Speeder, a std::optional might work"
25 Zogatribe1210123447615997034 days ago"C++ is not better than C; C++ is more than C."


These didn't make it to the top:
megaTherion (1184) xardas (1150) vancz (1104) zz (1091) veverak (1014)
rpav (1008) cplusplus (967) Hash (859) teut (855) wakeup (843)
computerquip (839) ujjawalgupta (804) tct (721) BurumaSerafuku (689) John99 (682)
rajkosto (677) imMute (653) horribleprogram (618) Gamah (590) constxd (579)
Guest58 (576) [o (572) Feuermagier (555) LunarJetman (549) drew (548)
glguy (545) Eelis_ (541) zipper (528) evangeline (526) barometz (522)

By the way, there were 3192 other nicks.

Big numbers
Is marshmallow stupid or just asking too many questions? 56.0% lines contained a question!
ujjawalgupta didn't know that much either. 46.0% 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> HI :(

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 big red brick

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 70.8 letters per line.
FAT1337 wrote the shortest lines, averaging 22.4 characters per line.
geordi_ was tight-lipped, too, averaging 26.6 characters.
Alipha spoke a total of 258810 words!
Alipha's faithful follower, ville, didn't speak so much: 190971 words.
ignorand wrote an average of 79.71 words per line.
Channel average was 12.45 words per line.

Most used words
 Word Number of Uses Last Used by
1 would 7962 ville
2 function 7126 b_jonas
3 there 6586 Liblx
4 which 4807 yes-ubuntu
5 class 4021 ville
6 about 3955 InPhase
7 because 3256 kalven
8 using 3063 b_jonas
9 think 2914 ville
10 should 2857 ville

Most referenced nicks
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 a 66923 Liblx
2 this 14267 b_jonas
3 some 4077 ville
4 Alipha 2303 ville
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://eel.is/c++draft/ 13 ville
6 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/lambda 12 euouae
7 https://github.com/alipha/cpp/tree/master/endian 12 Alipha
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/ 9 smol-hors
13 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3106110/what-is-move-sem 9 faLUKE
14 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector 9 xcvb
15 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/range-for 9 YmrDtnJu

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

logique seemed to be hated too: 3 kicks were received.
ville is either insane or just a fair op, kicking a total of 29 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 shrugs

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 131 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 541 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 661 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 1505 days ago at 08:08 by ville
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