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Re:UUID package coming to Go standard library by serf on Friday March 06, 2026 @10:41PM (#47284266)
the idea of what 'batteries included' means has changed a lot in the past twenty years, and like most Go quirks , probably Google just didn't need <missing-things>.
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Re:UUID package coming to Go standard library by throwaway894345 on Saturday March 07, 2026 @12:39AM (#47284828)
Google is the author of the de facto uuid library in Go, google/uuid. I’m very curious what people think is an exemplary “batteries included” stdlib?
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Re:UUID package coming to Go standard library by tptacek on Saturday March 07, 2026 @01:21AM (#47285016)
Huh? The universal idiomatic answer to "how to use UUIDs in Go programs" for the past decade has been to pull in a Google dep.
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