gofrs/uuid

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1811 stars · 125 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A pure Go library implementing Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) per RFC-9562, supporting creation and parsing of UUID versions 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. It is a maintained community fork of the abandoned satori/go.uuid package.

Use cases

• generate random UUIDs (v4) for database primary keys
• create k-sortable time-based UUIDs (v6/v7) for ordered identifiers
• parse UUID strings in various formats
• generate name-based UUIDs from MD5 or SHA-1 hashing
• replace the unmaintained satori/go.uuid package
• define custom UUID variants with version 8

When to choose

• you need a well-maintained, pure-Go UUID implementation with no dependencies
• you want RFC-9562 compliant UUIDs including sortable v6/v7 variants
• you are migrating from satori/go.uuid

When to avoid

• you need UUIDs in a language other than Go
• you only need simple random IDs and prefer the standard library's crypto/rand directly
• you need ULIDs or other non-UUID identifier schemes

Facets

library · maturity stable

serialization developer-tools developer-tools backend databases go cross-platform uuid rfc-9562 uuid-v7 k-sortable-ids identifier-generation

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