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I made a comparison list with the most known uuids out there, a couple of days ago, it was quite fun discovering all the different kinds of uid and their pros/cons.

https://adileo.github.io/awesome-identifiers/




KSUIDs are fairly popular and missing from your list:

https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid


what's the resolution on those? 32 bits, 100 years.. that seconds right? doesn't sound excellent for time ordering. 100 years also seems a little short but at least I'll be dead


Don't look at it as being your problem in 100 years, but as helping employment in 100 years and helping the economy ;)


ULID example should be in uppercase.

Love this chart tho.




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