go-nanoid

This module is a Go implementation of nanoid.

Features of the nanoid spec are:

• Use of hardware random generator
• Has larger alphabet than UUID (A-Za-z0-9_-), so ID size is reduced from 36 to 21 characters
• Faster than UUID

See comparison with UUID

Read more here

Benchmarks

All benchmarks & tests can be found in nanoid_test.go.

6,000,000 Nano IDs in 1500ms.

Credits & references

• Original reference
• Outdated Go implementation (26/06/22)

License

MIT LICENSE

GitHub

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