NEW cuid library stack

[Richard Gaskin]

Nice work, Bob - thanks!  And thanks for the MIT License.

And super-thanks for including this link in your Read Me - very helpful 
for understanding the goals and design of CUIDs:

http://usecuid.org/

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems



Bob Hall wrote:
 > I created a new library stack to create cuid compliant unique ids in
 > Livecode.
 >
 > What the heck is a cuid you ask? Well, in a nutshell, a cuid is a
 > "portable and sequentially-ordered unique identifier designed for
 > horizontal scalability and speed". You can use a cuid just like you
 > would a UUID.
 >
 > Where are cuid’s used? I ran across them when working on a couple
 > GraphQL projects. The main reason I created the library is so Livecode
 > apps I work on can play nicely with the GraphQL backend that uses
 > cuid’s for record ids.
 >
 > There is a performance hit when using this library compared to using
 > Livecode’s built in UUID function. On my old mac book, 10,000 cuids
 > can be generated typically in under 500ms. For me it is plenty fast
 > enough (typically you create 1 cuid at a time).
 >
 > I did come across one limitation in Livecode that made me think a bit
 > — cuid’s require the current milliseconds since the start of time in
 > base 36. The current milliseconds is too large an integer for
 > Livecode’s base conversion function but I got it worked out. I suspect
 > this logic may be a prime candidate for optimization (see private
 > function _base36convert in library).
 >
 > Of course this work is open sourced and under MIT license. Pull
 > requests welcomed!!!
 > https://github.com/bhall2001/cuid.livecodescript 
<https://github.com/bhall2001/cuid.livecodescript>
 >
 > Enjoy!
 >
 > Bob Hall
 > Manchester, NH