#C++ @ Libera.chat stats by TinoDidriksen

Statistics generated on Friday 6 February 2026 - 0:20:29
During this 1725-day reporting period, a total of 3175 different nicks were represented on #C++.


Most active times
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46049
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45151
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42209
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41933
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45458
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49979
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50198
3.8%
50747
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50251
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53564
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57978
4.1%
55713
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60660
4.8%
64103
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69825
5.1%
68865
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64300
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60519
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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 PJBoy161573024788848991418974 days ago"their own duration for system_clock, yeah"
2 Alipha15730275059486864256170yesterday"unless myIsStop is declared as a volatile bool"
3 ville129421308382248222990184652yesterday"even plain pointers are objects"
4 Eelis699070512002854223196949148 days ago"(and these need to be non-explicit)"
5 RandomReader53161796885276235992371978 days ago"so e.g. if you forgot to make the destructor virtual"
6 CarloWood4491314691146920176449270 days ago"The problem is as follows:"
7 cbreak429918175014501918392446 days ago"Chip1972: try using a code formatter, and a code sharing web p..."
8 anyone39614557431454130945448678 days ago"you are pretty much always using RAII in C++ (as soon as you i..."
9 TinoDidriksen299977135392264733735361 days ago"Not quite? It says "it is worth pursuing a compatible path fir..."
10 AliceMeows289028468599392830677182 days ago"That entire project sound like it came from the depths of hell"
11 chris642558784147030030986yesterday"so I guess get returns an optional just as you say?"
12 fluter2289503100075318584386 days ago"is gdb support such cases?"
13 InPhase22295938017834273045 days ago"ville: Can you show an example of calling that in a way where ..."
14 kalven21335391783381078198462 days ago"{ auto fun = [](int x) { return x; }; auto f = bind(fun, 123);..."
15 _PJBoy1878667118916804yesterday"C++20 to C++23 I think should be virtually free"
16 faLUKE18453098357687731268978 days ago"Sorry for the basic question: does std::cout << "foo" returns..."
17 fiesh174367782422125998yesterday"that being said, using `char[50]` is almost certainly a bad idea"
18 bpalmer170059118430562027025945 days ago"e.g., https://godbolt.org/z/9c16MbanE"
19 rbox1491786137539972240 days ago"you want to do a little as possible while its locked"
20 jbo14851684069857918432179 days ago"error: no member named 'clock_cast' in namespace 'std::chrono'"
21 Oxyd14501521486085422107765 days ago"Did you measure it to be slower?"
22 urdh12854857514714836182 days ago"Kasreyn_: no no you misunderstand, it's not a *cozy* blanket i..."
23 xcvb12738020248550616081yesterday"because of Hyrum's law, probably not much will change in libcs"
24 Raziel12392052283864201525314 days ago"well on msvc they waste 16 bytes"
25 Zogatribe1210123447615997045 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 (676) imMute (653) horribleprogram (618) Gamah (590) Guest58 (576)
[o (572) constxd (566) Feuermagier (555) drew (548) glguy (544)
Eelis_ (541) LunarJetman (533) zipper (528) evangeline (526) arch-angel (512)

By the way, there were 3120 other nicks.

Big numbers
Is marshmallow stupid or just asking too many questions? 55.8% lines contained a question!
Richardcavell didn't know that much either. 46.7% 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 10.5% 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 70.7 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 256170 words!
Alipha's faithful follower, ville, didn't speak so much: 184652 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 7029 sway
3 There 6516 sway
4 which 4776 sway
5 class 3972 sway
6 about 3907 SamuelMarks
7 because 3232 ximbau
8 using 3022 Richardcavell
9 think 2889 _PJBoy
10 const 2834 _PJBoy

Most referenced nicks
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 a 65964 chris64
2 this 14117 sway
3 some 4026 kx89
4 Alipha 2290 jbo
5 void 1198 daydrinking

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://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/lambda 12 euouae
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/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://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/ 9 smol-hors

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 likes `if (x)`

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 453 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 573 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 1417 days ago at 08:08 by ville
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