uuid VS decimal

Compare uuid vs decimal and see what are their differences.

uuid

UUID generator and utilities for Elixir (by zyro)

decimal

Arbitrary precision decimal arithmetic (by ericmj)
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uuid decimal
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0.0 3.7
about 1 month ago 26 days ago
Elixir Elixir
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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uuid

Posts with mentions or reviews of uuid. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-18.

decimal

Posts with mentions or reviews of decimal. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-18.
  • How to write a CRUD CLI using Elixir and ScyllaDB
    6 projects | dev.to | 18 Sep 2023
    Decimal: Arbitrary precision decimal arithmetic.
  • Render beautiful pdf invoice with phoenix and pagedjs
    3 projects | dev.to | 22 Jun 2022
    defmodule Billing.Invoice do defstruct ~w( id title number seller client issued_on payment_due_date articles total payment_information )a @type t :: %__MODULE__{ id: pos_integer(), title: String.t(), number: String.t(), seller: Company.t(), client: Company.t(), issued_on: DateTime.t(), payment_due_date: DateTime.t(), number: String.t(), articles: [Article.t()], total: Total.t(), payment_information: PaymentInformation.t() } defmodule Company do defstruct ~w( name logo address zip_code city country registration_number vat_number )a @type t :: %__MODULE__{ name: String.t(), logo: String.t(), address: String.t(), zip_code: String.t(), city: String.t(), country: String.t(), registration_number: String.t(), vat_number: String.t() } end defmodule Article do defstruct ~w( details qty unit_price vat total_excl_vat total )a @type t :: %__MODULE__{ details: String.t(), qty: integer(), # I recommand using https://hexdocs.pm/decimal or # https://hexdocs.pm/money in a real project unit_price: float(), vat: float(), total_excl_vat: float(), total: float() } end defmodule Total do defstruct ~w( total_excl_vat vat_amount total )a @type t :: %__MODULE__{ # I recommand using https://hexdocs.pm/decimal or # https://hexdocs.pm/money in a real project total_excl_vat: float(), vat_amount: float(), total: float() } end defmodule PaymentInformation do defstruct ~w( bic iban reference )a @type t :: %__MODULE__{ bic: String.t(), iban: String.t(), reference: String.t() } end end

What are some alternatives?

When comparing uuid and decimal you can also consider the following projects:

hashids - Stringify your ids

money - Elixir library for working with Money safer, easier, and fun... Is an interpretation of the Fowler's Money pattern in fun.prog.

nanoid - Elixir port of NanoID, a secure and URL-friendly unique ID generator. https://hex.pm/packages/nanoid

Ex_Money - Elixir implementation of Money with Currency

base58 - Base58 encoding/decoding for Elixir

elixir-range-extras - Elixir range utilities: constant-time random sampling and set operations.

base62 - Base62 encoder/decoder in pure Elixir

exmoji - :sunglasses: Emoji encoding swiss army knife for Elixir/Erlang

uuid_erl - Erlang Native UUID Generation

slime - Minimalistic HTML templates for Elixir, inspired by Slim.

tau - Elixir module for tau