namegen

What's this?

Go package and associated command line utility to generate random yet human-readable names and identifiers. Somewhat inspired by the random names that Docker gives its containers and GCP uses as project-ids.

Use it to generate email-ids, gamer-tags, component-ids, passwords or startup names.

For instance, it came up with gems like: boujee-coorgi, young-flamingo, articulate-otter-92, ancient-mako-7ab1g3 and mighty-pale-pikachu-7133.

Features

• 1 Million+ unique possibilities with just names and nearly infinite named ids
• Zero Allocations! No additional memory allocations other than the string returned
• Blazing fast!! (10,000,000+ Op/s)

API & Usage

Generate names using default config.

ngen := namegen.New()
fmt.Println(ngen.Get()) // twisted-flamingo

Configure name generator to generate named ids of the form "adjective-color-animal-xxxx".

name_schema := []namegen.DictType{
	namegen.Adjectives,
	namegen.Colors,
	namegen.Animals,
}
ngen := namegen.NewWithPostfixId(name_schema, namegen.Numeric, 4)
fmt.Println(ngen.Get()) // energetic-pink-pug-3729

Go Reference

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Benchmarks

goos: linux
goarch: amd64
pkg: github.com/anandvarma/namegen
cpu: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor              
BenchmarkNew-12                 1000000000               0.2561 ns/op          0 B/op          0 allocs/op
BenchmarkGet-12                 14617033                82.80 ns/op           18 B/op          1 allocs/op
BenchmarkGetForId-12            21623218                51.25 ns/op           16 B/op          1 allocs/op
BenchmarkGetWithPostfix-12      10882941               111.7 ns/op            26 B/op          1 allocs/op
BenchmarkGetPostfixId-12        31611556                37.07 ns/op           20 B/op          0 allocs/op
PASS
ok      github.com/anandvarma/namegen   5.293s