uuid VS prototypes

Compare uuid vs prototypes and see what are their differences.

prototypes

Draft Prototypes and Tests for UUIDv6 and beyond (by uuid6)
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uuid prototypes
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944 45
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8.2 6.0
about 1 month ago 6 months ago
Rust Python
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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 2023-03-11.
  • Python uuid-utils in Rust
    1 project | /r/Python | 1 Apr 2023
    Digging deeper now I found these links, so basically it uses `ThreadRng` from the `rand` crate. It mentions that the `ThreadRng` also seeds data from `OsRng` so I guess it's not much different, but I'm no expert in this area so I will post the links so if you find anything useful, please share:https://github.com/uuid-rs/uuid/issues/529https://github.com/uuid-rs/uuid/pull/545https://docs.rs/rand/latest/rand/rngs/struct.ThreadRng.html
  • cargo install uuid should give me a uuid tool
    2 projects | /r/rust | 11 Mar 2023
  • What's new in SeaORM 0.9.0
    6 projects | dev.to | 18 Jul 2022
    Upgrade uuid to 1.0
  • New UUID Formats from IETF
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jun 2022
    Those aren’t bytes — they’re integers of various sizes. (Hint: do not use integer types in C code for portable data structures. ntohl, etc are a mess. Just use arrays of bytes.)

    I don’t know the whole history, but MS somehow took this structure at face value and caused problems like this:

    https://github.com/uuid-rs/uuid/issues/277

    So, if you want to do anything (e.g. sorting) that depends on the representation of a UUID (or even depends on converting between string and binary representations), be aware that UUIDs coming from Windows may be little-endian. In my book, this is a Windows bug, but opinions may differ here.

  • Announcing uuid-simd, hex-simd and base64-simd!
    10 projects | /r/rust | 31 Dec 2021
    A: For uuid, the maintainer perfers to wait for stdsimd instead of maintaining different implementations. https://github.com/uuid-rs/uuid/issues/561.
  • Getting ready for uuid 1.0
    3 projects | /r/rust | 1 Nov 2021

prototypes

Posts with mentions or reviews of prototypes. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-12.
  • New UUID Formats from IETF
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Jun 2022
    Nice to see another implementation which takes a bit different approach. Just for your information, there's now Draft 03 which changes the format a little bit. I kinda liked the arbitrary precision of Draft 02, but the newer one just requires millisecond precision and then basically leaves it up to the implementation how to handle the generation of multiple UUIDs within the same millisecond.

    https://github.com/uuid6/prototypes/issues/21

What are some alternatives?

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

fastuuid - FastUUID is a library which provides CPython bindings to Rust's UUID library

Hashids.java - Hashids algorithm v1.0.0 implementation in Java

rust-base64 - base64, in rust

dart-uuid - Generate RFC4122(v1,v4,v5,v6,v7,v8) UUIDs

ulid-lite - Generate unique, yet sortable identifiers

uuid7 - UUID version 7, which are time-sortable (following the Peabody RFC4122 draft)

ulid - Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier (ULID) in Python 3

vanity-uuid - Create "readable" UUIDs such as "5eedbed5-f05e-b055-ada0-d15ab11171e5" for all your UUID needs!

brain - Swyx's second brain!

time - The most used Rust library for date and time handling.

uuid6-python - New time-based UUID formats which are suited for use as a database key