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Would you recommend starting a new project with UUID v7 ?



If the included timestamp doesn't expose sensitive data, then using UUID v7 is a good default, because it has performance advantages on database operations and items might be sorted by ID in a meaningful way, what is sometimes desired (even if I never used it).


If you need some of its attributes.

Some comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39261469

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36433481

And have a look at this post from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36438367




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