Book: The Complete Guide to Go Programming

Also by me: Pocket Guides for Developers — the 8-book series

My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools

Me: xgabriel.com | GitHub

Open a Go service's go.mod and there's a good chance github.com/google/uuid is in it. Its latest tag, v1.6.0, dates from January 2024 . Since Go 1.27 shipped on 2026-08-19 , you no longer need it for the common cases. The release notes say it in one line: "The new uuid package generates and parses UUIDs."

The import path is just uuid . The swap looks like a find-and-replace on the import line. It mostly is. Two things will fail to compile, which is good, because the compiler finds them for you. One thing compiles fine and then fails at runtime on the first row with a NULL in it.…