alt Hacker NewsUUID is just array of 16 bytes or two 64-bit ints. Generating UUIDv4 is like few lines of code. Is that a big deal? I don't think so.
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danishanish • yesterday at 7:26 AM
I think it saves labor and eventual bug hunting to include these in a stdlib. We should not be expected to look up the UUIDv4 spec and make sure you’re following it correctly. This feels like exactly what reasonable encapsulation should be.
8organicbits • yesterday at 12:28 PM
I had a similar thought a while back. Looking at the code for existing UUID projects, issues they fixed, and in some cases the CVEs, is a good way to form a different opinion.
Razengan • yesterday at 10:08 AM
You can say this for everything that has built-in support.
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16 random bytes is not a valid UUIDv4. I don’t think it needs to be in the standard library, but implementing the spec yourself is also not the right choice for 99% of cases.