> I frankly don't understand how it's good. UUID originally was intended as something you use very sparingly, to name, say, a product SKU maybe, an organizatio

> I frankly don't understand how it's good. UUID originally was intended as something you use very sparingly, to name, say, a product SKU maybe, an organization, something like that. Not literally content that collides commonly at the same nanosecond, in the same application, in the same platform/org. Wikipedia gives a different history, that it was originally for networked computers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier#...