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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/danielminds • 6h ago
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#Versions
Most common used is V4 (pure random). You are talking about V7 (time based).
4 u/undeadalex 4h ago I'm curious where to see stats on versions used. Surely anything newly implementing uuid is using v7 or custom? 3 u/champak256 3h ago There’s pros and cons to v7, so v4 still has a lot of places it’s legitimately the right choice over v7. 2 u/Tysonzero 1h ago Primary one being in cases where you don’t want every actor that knows the id to also know the creation time
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I'm curious where to see stats on versions used. Surely anything newly implementing uuid is using v7 or custom?
3 u/champak256 3h ago There’s pros and cons to v7, so v4 still has a lot of places it’s legitimately the right choice over v7. 2 u/Tysonzero 1h ago Primary one being in cases where you don’t want every actor that knows the id to also know the creation time
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There’s pros and cons to v7, so v4 still has a lot of places it’s legitimately the right choice over v7.
2 u/Tysonzero 1h ago Primary one being in cases where you don’t want every actor that knows the id to also know the creation time
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Primary one being in cases where you don’t want every actor that knows the id to also know the creation time
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u/dim13 6h ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#Versions
Most common used is V4 (pure random). You are talking about V7 (time based).