Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
class	Cocoa	MBS MacBase Plugin	18.1	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	All

An object representing a universally unique value that bridges to UUID; use NSUUID when you need reference semantics or other Foundation-specific behavior.

UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifiers), also known as GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifiers) or IIDs (Interface Identifiers), are 128-bit values. UUIDs created by NSUUID conform to RFC 4122 version 4 and are created with random bytes.
The standard format for UUIDs represented in ASCII is a string punctuated by hyphens, for example 68753A44-4D6F-1226-9C60-0050E4C00067. The hex representation looks, as you might expect, like a list of numerical values preceded by 0x. For example, 0xD7, 0x36, 0x95, 0x0A, 0x4D, 0x6E, 0x12, 0x26, 0x80, 0x3A, 0x00, 0x50, 0xE4, 0xC0, 0x00, 0x67. Because a UUID is expressed simply as an array of bytes, there are no endianness considerations for different platforms.