#C++ @ Libera.chat stats by TinoDidriksen

Statistics generated on Thursday 26 March 2026 - 0:26:43
During this 1773-day reporting period, a total of 3218 different nicks were represented on #C++.


Most active times
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46470
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42887
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46334
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59483
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62146
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71459
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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 PJBoy163153049793949811436404 days ago"the notify and wait calls should be mutually exclusive"
2 Alipha158612775597469422583456 days ago"Richardcavell: c will have smaller executables. I'm inclined t..."
3 ville131431316389848943035187498yesterday"no they must not. watch the video again if you believe they do"
4 Eelis699070512002854223196949196 days ago"(which i fully expect will be added at some point)"
5 RandomReader531617968852762359923711026 days ago"no, that's why std stuck them in std::literals, so that it's p..."
6 CarloWood44913146911469201764492118 days ago"Example: https://wandbox.org/permlink/nuamwvymvsfpYTk3"
7 cbreak4334183750146819333971010 days ago"There are probably better higher-level APIs for many usecases"
8 anyone39614557431454130945448726 days ago"tm512: the way I see it, <sys/stat.h> is at fault for not incl..."
9 TinoDidriksen299977135392264733735409 days ago"No, libraries. Boost is not entirely header-only."
10 AliceMeows289028468599392830677230 days ago"In this specific case there is no difference between the two"
11 chris64255978514703003099848 days ago"thanks for the tip ville. didn't check the conference videos f..."
12 fluter2289503100075318584434 days ago"Hi, how is debugging of compile time code/meta programming wor..."
13 InPhase22715938048224350510 days ago"gordonjcp: Often there is a fundamental tradeoff between "easi..."
14 kalven2176548181341110620208yesterday"and just adding a default constructor is out of the question?"
15 _PJBoy191969412031718917 days ago"Guest83, note: not visual studio code"
16 faLUKE184530983576877312681026 days ago"bad names for c++ functions are like a mine"
17 fiesh1753679831222261954 days ago"I'm sure there are super-involved reasons that this order is r..."
18 bpalmer170059118430562027025993 days ago"you can technically do some of this with template metaprogramm..."
19 rbox150278613755098024 days ago"it will block until its unlocked"
20 jbo14851684069857918432227 days ago"yeah I figured it out eventually"
21 Oxyd14591521516125442116533 days ago"std::string doesn't interpret its own contents in any way. Thi..."
22 xcvb1387100219517551176114 days ago"(just one that's lock-free)"
23 urdh12854857514714836230 days ago"eh, what's the arithmetic conversion table factoid again?"
24 Raziel12632052284064241552124 days ago"anything can be thrown as an exception, actually"
25 Zogatribe1210123447615997093 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) rpav (1008)
veverak (981) cplusplus (967) Hash (859) teut (855) wakeup (843)
computerquip (834) 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 3163 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> DANGER YOU HAVE BREAK YOUR LINES LIMIT..

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 anyone 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 70.7 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 258345 words!
Alipha's faithful follower, ville, didn't speak so much: 187498 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 7925 Ramattack
2 function 7101 highrate
3 there 6563 humm
4 which 4792 Alipha
5 class 4004 PJBoy
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 66537 PJBoy
2 this 14218 PJBoy
3 some 4050 Ramattack
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://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/lambda 12 euouae
6 https://github.com/alipha/cpp/tree/master/endian 12 Alipha
7 https://eel.is/c++draft/ 12 ville
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/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://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector 9 xcvb
14 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/range-for 9 YmrDtnJu
15 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3106110/what-is-move-sem 9 faLUKE

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

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 publishes a modern C++ book using this style

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 501 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 621 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 1465 days ago at 08:08 by ville
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