Mastodawn

UUID package coming to Go standard library

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/62026

proposal: uuid: add API to generate and parse UUID · Issue #62026 · golang/go

I would like to suggest the addition to the standard library of a package to generate and parse UUID identifiers, specifically versions 3, 4 and 5. The main reason I see to include it is that the m...

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therealdrag0 Mar 7

Golang lack of support for basic stuff like this is quite annoying.

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tptacek

What's the language you're thinking of that has more of these decisions fixed in the standard library? I know it's not Ruby, Python, Rust, or Javascript. Is it Java? I don't think this is something Elixir does better.