ulid VS errors

Our Go ULID package has millisecond precision + monotonic random bytes for disambiguation while preserving ordering within the same millisecond. https://github.com/oklog/ulid

There is no "tests".

There is just a single test. Which only tests the decoding of a single known value. No encoding test.

Go has infrastructure for benchmarking and fuzzing. Use it!

Also, you took code from https://github.com/oklog/ulid/blob/main/ulid.go which has "Copyright 2016 The Oklog Authors" but this is not mentionned in your base32.go.

maybe because of dependencies: https://github.com/oklog/ulid/blob/main/go.mod ??

Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier

I'm not concerned too much about the performance or the storage size at this stage. I've checked ulids before posting (more specifically https://github.com/oklog/ulid) but the only difference than a random string (especially if you use them with math.rand) is the timestamp prefix which makes them sortable, but I don't need that (users could use the internal SQLite rowid if they needed to sort by a primary key).

why are you using https://github.com/oklog/ulid to generate a cookie secret?

oklog/ulid to generate IDs. coreos/go-oidc for validating JWTs I get from auth. google/go-cmp for comparing structs in tests (unless the project is already using Testify). spf13/pflag because life's too short for Go's flag handling. getkin/kin-openapi for validating reqests/responses against my OpenAPI spec (in tests).

If you just want to roll with an off-the-shelf library, you can use ULID. There are tons of custom made *flake alternatives. If ULID doesn't fit your purposes, look for others.

Can you explain why we should this over https://github.com/pkg/errors?

The pkg/errors package offers some nice add-ons for easier error handling. Too bad it was put into maintenance mode pending whatever changes/improvements are coming in Go 2.

I can't figure out the issue so here for some help, I am using `neovim/nvim-lspconfig` my `gopls` doesn't recognise external paths such as `github.com/pkg/errors` , it throws error`could not import github.com/pkg/errors (cannot find package "github.com/pkg/errors" in any of /usr/local/go/src/github.com/pkg/errors (from $GOROOT) /Users/ra compiler (BrokenImport)\`

Also - there are some error handling utils that allow you to wrap errors before passing: https://github.com/pkg/errors

Should've been something like errors.Newf("failed to foofoo %s", foo) instead and preferably never invent %w but have some controlled way to wrap like errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to foofoo %s", foo) that was in ye olde github.com/pkg/errors.

Prefer using errors.Wrap and errors.Wrapf from https://github.com/pkg/errors . It's frozen because they don't want to add features, waiting for a re-write of error handling in Go2.

Im using zerolog and in order to get the stack trace for my error I have to wrap my error in errors.Wrap from "github.com/pkg/errors".

And for "real programs" you can use https://github.com/pkg/errors (if you want stack traces)