#C++ @ Libera.chat stats by TinoDidriksen

Statistics generated on Tuesday 3 February 2026 - 0:32:38
During this 1722-day reporting period, a total of 3171 different nicks were represented on #C++.


Most active times
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50947
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45981
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45083
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42159
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41887
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45418
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49906
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50141
3.8%
50665
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50182
4.0%
53492
4.3%
57853
4.1%
55574
4.5%
60568
4.8%
64019
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69750
5.1%
68754
4.8%
64221
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65039
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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 PJBoy16157302478884899141897yesterday"<< TYPE<chrono::time_point<chrono::system_clock>::rep>"
2 Alipha15716274859416859255967yesterday"actually, that's probably not the problem. so yeah, testcase"
3 ville129111308382247952986184064yesterday"or rather don't let one escape a dtor"
4 Eelis699070512002854223196949145 days ago"so maybe the best of all worlds is possible"
5 RandomReader53161796885276235992371975 days ago"it needs to know what Foo is first"
6 CarloWood4491314691146920176449267 days ago"On that topic - anyone can answer my question?"
7 cbreak429918175014501918392443 days ago"why would you use builtin functions directly instead of using ..."
8 anyone39614557431454130945448675 days ago"not only that, but AFAICT, #line is a *product* of some prepro..."
9 TinoDidriksen299977135392264733735358 days ago"Isn't it fairly easy to add both?"
10 AliceMeows289028468599392830677179 days ago"https://godbolt.org/z/hscj99Ghr you can trip the parser too"
11 chris64254377914702903080550 days ago"I read the table like that the ; q was not possible before"
12 fluter2289503100075318584383 days ago"Hi, how is debugging of compile time code/meta programming wor..."
13 InPhase22295938017834273042 days ago"pony: Was that intentionally C+=23 as a reference to the lates..."
14 kalven2130538178337107719808yesterday"it's only necessary if you want to provide operator*"
15 _PJBoy18516411188164345 days ago"if you didn't use pthread then you wouldn't have that oddity"
16 faLUKE18453098357687731268975 days ago"but it's listed as an operator in fold expressions"
17 fiesh17276748112212570313 days ago"geordi: { cout << f(); } auto f() { return std::string{"Ramatt..."
18 bpalmer170059118430562027025942 days ago"Alipha: and thus my question, why ?"
19 rbox1491786137539972237 days ago"did you get your C++ license?"
20 jbo14851684069857918432176 days ago"ultimately, I need an std::vector<std::byte>"
21 Oxyd14501521486085422107762 days ago"It'll do the entire right-hand side first, then the &= last."
22 urdh12854857514714836179 days ago"you'd probably get a better answer from #C"
23 xcvb12638019847950615949yesterday"let's hope the front does not fall off"
24 Raziel12392052283864201525311 days ago"C++26 will have std::optional<T&> directly"
25 Zogatribe1210123447615997042 days ago"preach: Qt uses a dual licensing model, as will neoGFX."


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) euouae (512)

By the way, there were 3116 other nicks.

Big numbers
Is marshmallow stupid or just asking too many questions? 55.8% 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 10.5% 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> 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 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 255967 words!
Alipha's faithful follower, ville, didn't speak so much: 184064 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 7863 Kasreyn
2 function 7024 lh_mouse
3 there 6505 lh_mouse
4 which 4768 xcvb
5 class 3962 ville
6 about 3897 xcvb
7 because 3232 ximbau
8 using 3016 xcvb
9 think 2885 agent314
10 const 2829 cbreak

Most referenced nicks
 Nick Number of Uses Last Used by
1 a 65886 xcvb
2 this 14110 t4nk_fn
3 some 4020 t4nk_fn
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://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/lambda 12 euouae
6 https://eel.is/c++draft/ 12 ville
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/new 10 bpalmer
11 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/eval_order 10 xcvb
12 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3106110/what-is-move-sem 9 faLUKE
13 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/dependent_name 9 Alipha
14 https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/container/vector 9 xcvb
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

CarloWood 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 casts ignore(expr) to the void

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 450 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 570 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 1414 days ago at 08:08 by ville
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