Is there a method to generate a UUID with go language

Question

I have code that looks like this:

u := make([]byte, 16)
_, err := rand.Read(u)
if err != nil {
    return
}

u[8] = (u[8] | 0x80) & 0xBF // what does thi         


        

Answer 1

This library is our standard for uuid generation and parsing:

https://github.com/pborman/uuid