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    Coding Style Conventions and Standards




# Coding Style Conventions and Standards



A curated list of _Coding Style Conventions and Standards_.



## Table of Contents



- [Programming Languages](#programming-languages)

- [Miscellaneous](#miscellaneous)



## Programming Languages



### Arduino



- **[Arduino Style Guide for Creating Libraries](https://docs.arduino.cc/learn/contributions/arduino-library-style-guide)**.

- **[Arduino Style Guide for Writing Content](https://docs.arduino.cc/learn/contributions/arduino-writing-style-guide)**.

- [The ArduPirates Coder's Bible](https://code.google.com/p/ardupirates/wiki/CodingConventions).



### C



- [C Coding Standard](https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~eno/coding/CCodingStandard.html).

- [C Programming/Structure and Style](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C_Programming/Structure_and_style).

- [SEI CERT C Coding Standard](https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/c/SEI+CERT+C+Coding+Standard).



### C#



- [C# Coding Standards Best Practices](https://www.dofactory.com/csharp-coding-standards).

- **[Microsoft C# Coding Conventions](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/coding-style/coding-conventions)**.

- [Mono Coding Guidelines](https://www.mono-project.com/community/contributing/coding-guidelines).



### C++



- [Apache OpenOffice Cpp Coding Standards](https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Cpp_Coding_Standards)

- [C++ Coding Standard](http://www.possibility.com/Cpp/CppCodingStandard.html).

- [C++ Coding Standard](https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~eno/coding/CppCodingStandard.html).

- [Google C++ Style Guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html).

- [High Integrity C++ Coding Standard](http://www.codingstandard.com/section/index).

- [WebKit Code Style Guidelines](https://webkit.org/code-style-guidelines).



### Clojure



- [The Clojure Style Guide](https://github.com/bbatsov/clojure-style-guide) - A community coding style guide for the Clojure programming language.



### Common Lisp



- [Google Common Lisp Style Guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/lispguide.xml).



### D



- **[The D Style](https://dlang.org/dstyle.html)**.



### Dart



- **[Effective Dart: Style](https://www.dartlang.org/articles/style-guide/)**.



### Elixir



- [The Elixir Style Guide](https://github.com/christopheradams/elixir_style_guide) - A community driven style guide for Elixir.



### Erlang



- [Erlang Coding Standards & Guidelines](https://github.com/inaka/erlang_guidelines) - Inaka's Erlang Coding Guidelines.



### F#



- **[Microsoft F# code formatting guidelines](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/fsharp/style-guide/formatting)**.

- **[Microsoft F# coding conventions](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/fsharp/style-guide/conventions)**.

- **[Microsoft F# component design guidelines](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/fsharp/style-guide/component-design-guidelines)**.



### Fortran



- **[Fortran Best Practices](https://www.fortran90.org/src/best-practices.html)**.



### Go



- **[How to Write Go Code](https://go.dev/doc/code)**.



### Haskell



- **[Haskell Programming guidelines](https://wiki.haskell.org/Programming_guidelines)**.

- [Haskell Style Guide](https://github.com/tibbe/haskell-style-guide) - A style guide for Haskell code.



### HTML/CSS



- [Airbnb CSS-in-JavaScript Style Guide](https://airbnb.io/javascript/css-in-javascript/) - A mostly reasonable approach to CSS-in-JavaScript.

- [Airbnb CSS / Sass Styleguide](https://github.com/airbnb/css) - A mostly reasonable approach to CSS and Sass.

- [Evernote CSS Style Guide](https://github.com/evernote/css-style-guide).

- [Google HTML/CSS Style Guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/htmlcssguide.html).

- [HTML style guide](https://github.com/caiogondim/html-style-guide).

- [jQuery CSS Style Guide](https://contribute.jquery.org/style-guide/css/).

- [jQuery HTML Style Guide](https://contribute.jquery.org/style-guide/html/).

- [MediaWiki Coding conventions/CSS](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions/CSS).

- **[W3Schools HTML Style Guide](https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_syntax.asp)**.

- [WordPress CSS Coding Standards](https://developer.wordpress.org/coding-standards/wordpress-coding-standards/css/).

- [WordPress HTML Coding Standards](https://developer.wordpress.org/coding-standards/wordpress-coding-standards/html/).



### Java



- **[Code Conventions for the Java ™ Programming Language](https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/codeconventions-contents.html)**.

- [Google Java Style Guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/javaguide.html).

- [Java Programming Style Guidelines](https://geosoft.no/javastyle.html).

- **[OpenJDK Java Style Guidelines](https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alundblad/styleguide/index.html)**.

- [SEI CERT Oracle Coding Standard for Java](https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/java/SEI+CERT+Oracle+Coding+Standard+for+Java).



### JavaScript



- [Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide() {](https://airbnb.io/javascript/) - A mostly reasonable approach to JavaScript.

- [Code Conventions for the JavaScript Programming Language](https://www.crockford.com/code.html).

- [function qualityGuide () {](https://github.com/bevacqua/js) - A JavaScript Quality Guide.

- [Google JavaScript Style Guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/javascriptguide.xml).

- [JavaScript Style Guide](https://github.com/bengourley/js-style-guide) - JavaScript style guide.

- [JavaScript Style Guide](https://github.com/chamnap/javascript_style_guide) - JavaScript Style Guide.

- [JS: The Right Way](https://jstherightway.org).

- [jQuery JavaScript Style Guide](https://contribute.jquery.org/style-guide/js/).

- [MediaWiki Coding conventions/JavaScript](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions/JavaScript).

- [The GoCardless JavaScript style guide](https://github.com/gocardless/javascript-style-guide) - The GoCardless JavaScript styleguide .

- **[W3Schools JavaScript Style Guide](https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_conventions.asp)**.

- [WordPress JavaScript Coding Standards](https://developer.wordpress.org/coding-standards/wordpress-coding-standards/javascript/).



#### AngularJS



- **[An AngularJS Style Guide for Closure Users at Google](https://google.github.io/styleguide/angularjs-google-style.html)**.

- [Angular Style Guide](https://github.com/johnpapa/angular-styleguide) - Angular Style Guide: A starting point for Angular development teams to provide consistency through good practices.



#### React



- [Airbnb React/JSX Style Guide](https://airbnb.io/javascript/react/) - A mostly reasonable approach to React and JSX.



### JSON



- [Google JSON Style Guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/jsoncstyleguide.xml).



### Lua



- [Lua Style Guide](https://github.com/Olivine-Labs/lua-style-guide) - Olivine Labs Lua Style Guide .



### Markdown



- [Markdown Style Guide](https://cirosantilli.com/markdown-style-guide/).

- [Style Guidelines: Markdown](https://github.com/carwin/markdown-styleguide) - Formatting standards for readable & consistent Markdown.



### Objective-C



- **[Apple Programming with Objective-C Conventions](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/ProgrammingWithObjectiveC/Conventions/Conventions.html)**.

- **[Apple Introduction to Coding Guidelines for Cocoa](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/CodingGuidelines/CodingGuidelines.html)**.

- [Google Objective-C Style Guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/objcguide.html).

- [Macoscope Objective-C Style Guide](https://github.com/macoscope/objc-style-guide) - Our code style guidelines.

- [NYTimes Objective-C Style Guide](https://github.com/NYTimes/objective-c-style-guide) - The Objective-C Style Guide used by The New York Times.

- [Robots & Pencils Objective-C Style Guide](https://github.com/RobotsAndPencils/objective-c-style-guide) - Our Objective-C coding style guide.

- [Wonderful Objective-C Style Guide](https://github.com/markeissler/wonderful-objective-c-style-guide) - A complete OSX and iOS Objective-C coding style guide.



### Pascal



- **[Free Pascal and Lazarus Coding style](https://wiki.freepascal.org/Coding_style)**.

- [Object Pascal Style Guide ](https://edn.embarcadero.com/article/10280).



### Perl



- [Apache OpenOffice Perl Coding Standards](https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Perl_Coding_Standards).

- **[Perl style guide](https://perldoc.perl.org/perlstyle)**.

- [Perl style guide](https://metacpan.org/dist/perl/view/pod/perlstyle.pod).

- [SEI CERT Perl Coding Standard](https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/perl/SEI+CERT+Perl+Coding+Standard).



### PHP



- [MediaWiki Coding conventions/PHP](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions/PHP).

- [PHP-FIG PSR-12: Extended Coding Style](https://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-12/).

- [WordPress PHP Coding Standards](https://developer.wordpress.org/coding-standards/wordpress-coding-standards/php/).



### Prolog



- [Prolog programming guidelines](https://lifeware.inria.fr/~soliman/post/prolog_guidelines/).



### Python



- [Google Python Style Guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/pyguide.html).

- [MediaWiki Coding conventions/Python](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions/Python).

- **[Python PEP 8 - Style Guide for Python Code](https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/)**.

- [The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python - Code Style](https://docs.python-guide.org/writing/style/).



### R



- [Google's R Style Guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/Rguide.html).

- [R Style Guide](https://jef.works/R-style-guide/) - Best practices for readable, sharable, and verifiable R code.



### Ruby



- [Airbnb Ruby Style Guide](https://github.com/airbnb/ruby) - Ruby Style Guide.

- [MediaWiki Coding conventions/Ruby](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Coding_conventions/Ruby).

- [Ruby Style Guide](https://github.com/rubocop/ruby-style-guide) - A community-driven Ruby coding style guide.

- [The Unofficial Ruby Usage Guide](https://caliban.org/ruby/rubyguide.shtml).



#### Ruby on Rails



- **[Contributing to Ruby on Rails](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/contributing_to_ruby_on_rails.html)**.

- [Rails Style Guide](https://github.com/rubocop/rails-style-guide) - A community-driven Ruby on Rails style guide .



### Rust



- **[Rust Style Guidelines](https://doc.rust-lang.org/1.0.0/style/README.html)**.



### Scala



- **[Scala Style Guide](https://docs.scala-lang.org/style/)**.



### Shell



- [Bash Style Guide](https://github.com/bahamas10/bash-style-guide) - A style guide for writing safe, predictable, and portable bash scripts (not sh!) .

- [Community Bash Style Guide](https://github.com/azet/community_bash_style_guide) - Community Bash Style Guide: writing useful and modern bash scripts, seriously.

- [Google Shell Style Guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/shellguide.html).

- [Shell Script Best Practices](https://sharats.me/posts/shell-script-best-practices/).



### Swift



- **[Apple API Design Guidelines](https://www.swift.org/documentation/api-design-guidelines/)**.

- [Google Swift Style Guide](https://google.github.io/swift/).

- [Metova's Swift Style Guide](https://github.com/metova/swift-style-guide).

- [Swift Style Guide](https://github.com/SlideShareInc/swift-style-guide) - SlideShare Swift Style Guide we are using for our upcoming iOS 8 only app written in Swift .



### VHDL



- [VHDL Coding Style Guidelines](https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~amaral/courses/329/labs/VHDL_Guideline.html).



### Visual Basic



- **[Microsoft Visual Basic Coding Conventions](https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/visual-basic/programming-guide/program-structure/coding-conventions)**.

- **[Microsoft Visual Basic Naming Conventions](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/visual-basic/programming-guide/program-structure/naming-conventions)**.

- [Visual Basic/Coding Standards](https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Visual_Basic/Coding_Standards).



### XML



- [Google XML Document Format Style Guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/xmlstyle.html).



## Miscellaneous



### Changelog



- [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com) - Don't let your friends dump git logs into changelogs.



### Git



- [Git Style Guide](https://github.com/agis-/git-style-guide) - A Git Style Guide.

- [Udacity Git Commit Message Style Guide](https://udacity.github.io/git-styleguide).



## Contributing



Contributions are welcome! Please see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.



## License



This list was created by [Salvatore Gentile](https://twitter.com/_sgentile) and is released under **The MIT License (MIT)**.