Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs

Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by TeeWEE on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:28PM (#36511382)

Good, but I dont see a big advantage over UUIDv7 Anyone has some good ones?

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Re:Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspire... by dloreto on Wednesday June 28, 2023 @03:36PM (#36511486)

It's based on UUIDv7 (in fact, a TypeID can be decoded into an UUIDv7). The main reasons to use TypeID over "raw" UUIDv7 are: 1) For the type safety, and 2) for the more compact string encoding.

If you don't need either of those, then UUIDv7 is the right choice.

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