#C++ @ Libera.chat stats by TinoDidriksen

Statistics generated on Thursday 19 March 2026 - 0:20:36
During this 1766-day reporting period, a total of 3212 different nicks were represented on #C++.

Most active times

3.8%	3.4%	3.4%	3.1%	3.1%	3.4%	3.7%	3.7%	3.8%	3.7%	4.0%	4.3%	4.1%	4.5%	4.8%	5.2%	5.1%	4.8%	4.8%	4.8%	4.7%	4.6%	4.3%	4.1%
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Most active nicks

	Nick	Number of lines	When?	Number of Words	Last seen	Random quote
1	PJBoy	16297		143451	7 days ago	"the notify_one call on the other hand"
2	Alipha	15860		258296	yesterday	"PhilAlbano: `MyClass obj;` in a function will indeed be destro..."
3	ville	13132		187406	yesterday	"xcvb: https://xxx.godbolt.org/z/csWWPYc6v"
4	Eelis	6990		96949	189 days ago	"details of file ownership and permissions are OS-specific and ..."
5	RandomReader	5316		92371	1019 days ago	"so that's why I was confused by the question"
6	CarloWood	4491		64492	111 days ago	"Why can't I do this: constexpr auto perm = {10, 13, 0, 4, 3,..."
7	cbreak	4334		39710	3 days ago	"do people nowadays still learn about Hoare Triples?"
8	anyone	3961		45448	719 days ago	"(or whereever this 'timeval' comes from)"
9	TinoDidriksen	2999		33735	402 days ago	"Afaik, it's the same guarantee in C++, except pointer-to-membe..."
10	AliceMeows	2890		30677	223 days ago	"Might be performance but its just a guess"
11	chris64	2559		30998	41 days ago	"and it's m.get() vs m.find()"
12	fluter	2289		18584	427 days ago	"jcarpenter2: does gdb step into constexpr functions?"
13	InPhase	2271		43505	3 days ago	"I think you've misunderstood the requirement."
14	kalven	2174		20196	yesterday	"what would be the issue for your code if it doesn't happen? bu..."
15	_PJBoy	1919		17189	10 days ago	"I don't think any of them are UB"
16	faLUKE	1845		31268	1019 days ago	"AliceMeows: then, this doesn't happen because of optimizations"
17	fiesh	1752		26158	9 days ago	"that's sensible engineering for you"
18	bpalmer	1700		27025	986 days ago	"Hmm. OK, I misunderstood the use case of owner_before,then."
19	rbox	1496		9763	26 days ago	"you want to do a little as possible while its locked"
20	jbo	1485		18432	220 days ago	"I'm into C++ for 15 years and I still realise on a weekly basi..."
21	Oxyd	1459		21165	26 days ago	"Bureaucracy at its finest."
22	xcvb	1377		17482	3 days ago	"{ char t[3]={'f','o','o'}; cout << string_view(t).size(); }"
23	urdh	1285		14836	223 days ago	"endian detection is a mistake"
24	Raziel	1263		15521	17 days ago	"C++26 will have std::optional<T&> directly"
25	Zogatribe	1210		9970	86 days ago	"gordonjcp: C++ is not suitable for safety critical systems"

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 (677)	imMute (653)	horribleprogram (618)	Gamah (590)	constxd (579)
Guest58 (576)	[o (572)	Feuermagier (555)	drew (548)	glguy (545)
Eelis_ (541)	LunarJetman (535)	zipper (528)	evangeline (526)	arch-angel (512)

By the way, there were 3157 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> $ * *MAX +1 :|
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
[he-man] 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:
* FAT1337 slaps anyone with a rainbow trout
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 26.4 characters.

Alipha spoke a total of 258296 words!
Alipha's faithful follower, ville, didn't speak so much: 187406 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	7919	Kasreynn
2	function	7084	kalven
3	there	6557	xcvb
4	which	4792	Alipha
5	class	3999	PhilAlbano
6	about	3916	stefanos82
7	because	3243	xcvb
8	using	3037	ARoxdale
9	think	2889	_PJBoy
10	const	2843	stefanos82

Most referenced nicks

	Nick	Number of Uses	Last Used by
1	a	66469	j`ey
2	this	14206	jmd
3	some	4042	PJBoy
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://eel.is/c++draft/	12	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/container/vector/vector	11	sord937
9	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/constraints	11	chris64
10	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/new	10	bpalmer
11	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/eval_order	10	xcvb
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/language/dependent_name	9	Alipha
15	https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector	9	xcvb

Other interesting numbers

frex wasn't very popular, getting kicked 3 times!
For example, like this:
*** frex was kicked by Eelis
TorTor 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 cowers in fear
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.

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	494 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	614 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	1458 days ago at 08:08 by ville
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