Coding Style Conventions and Standards

A curated list of Coding Style Conventions and Standards.

Table of Contents

• Programming Languages
• Miscellaneous

Programming Languages

Arduino

• Arduino Style Guide.
• The ArduPirates Coder's Bible.

C

• C Coding Standard.
• Recommended C Style and Coding Standards.
• SEI CERT C Coding Standard.

C#

• C# Coding Standards and Naming Conventions.
• Google C# Style Guide
• Microsoft C# Coding Conventions (C# Programming Guide).
• Mono Coding Guidelines.
• The Official raywenderlich.com C# Style Guide - C# Style Guide for Unity Tutorials.

C++

• Apache OpenOffice Cpp Coding Standards
• C++ Best Practices - Forkable C++ coding standards document.
• C++ Coding Standard.
• C++ Coding Standard.
• Google C++ Style Guide.
• High Integrity C++ Coding Standard.
• SEI CERT C++ Coding Standard.

Clojure

• The Clojure Style Guide - A community coding style guide for the Clojure programming language.

Common Lisp

• Ariel Networks Common Lisp Style Guide.
• Google Common Lisp Style Guide.

D

• The D Style.

Dart

• Dart Style Guide.

Elixir

• The Elixir Style Guide - A community driven style guide for Elixir.

Erlang

• Erlang Coding Standards & Guidelines - Inaka's Erlang Coding Guidelines.
• Programming Rules and Conventions.

F#

• Microsoft Code Formatting Guidelines (F#).
• The F# Component Design Guidelines.

Fortran

• Fortran 90 Best Practices.

Go

• How to Write Go Code.

Haskell

• Haskell Programming guidelines.
• Haskell Style Guide - A document describing how I like Haskell code to be written.
• Haskell Style Guide - A style guide for Haskell code.

HTML/CSS

• CSS Style Guide - MercadoLibre CSS Style Guide.
• Evernote CSS Style Guide.
• Google HTML/CSS Style Guide.
• HTML Style Guide.
• jQuery CSS Style Guide.
• jQuery HTML Style Guide.
• MediaWiki CSS Coding Conventions.
• W3Schools HTML(5) Style Guide and Coding Conventions.
• WordPress CSS Coding Standards.
• WordPress HTML Coding Standards.

Java

• Code Conventions for the Java ™ Programming Language.
• Google Java Style.
• Java Programming Style Guidelines.
• OpenJDK Java Style Guidelines.
• SEI CERT Oracle Coding Standard for Java.
• The Official raywenderlich.com Java Style Guide - The official Java style guide for raywenderlich.com.

JavaScript

• Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide - JavaScript Style Guide.
• Code Conventions for the JavaScript Programming Language.
• GitHub JavaScript Coding Style
• Google JavaScript Style Guide.
• Google js Guide
• JavaScript Quality Guide - A JavaScript Quality Guide.
• JavaScript Style Guide - JavaScript style guide.
• JavaScript Style Guide - JavaScript Style Guide.
• JavaScript Style Guide - MercadoLibre JavaScript Style Guide.
• JavaScript: The Right Way - An easy-to-read, quick reference for JS best practices, accepted coding standards, and links around the Web.
• jQuery JavaScript Style Guide.
• MediaWiki JavaScript Coding Conventions.
• Robin Wieruch javaScript Naming Conventions
• The GoCardless JavaScript Style Guide The GoCardless JavaScript styleguide.
• W3Schools JavaScript Style Guide and Coding Conventions.
• WordPress JavaScript Coding Standards.

AngularJS

• An AngularJS Style Guide for Closure Users at Google.
• Angular Style Guide - Angular Style Guide: A starting point for Angular development teams to provide consistency through good practices.

JSON

• Google JSON Style Guide.

Lua

• Lua Style Guide - Olivine Labs Lua Style Guide.

Markdown

• Markdown Style Guide.
• Style Guidelines: Markdown - Formatting standards for readable & consistent Markdown.

Objective-C

• GitHub Objective-C Style Guide - Style guide & coding conventions for Objective-C projects.
• Google Objective-C Style Guide.
• Macoscope Objective-C Style Guide - Our code style guidelines.
• NYTimes Objective-C Style Guide - The Objective-C Style Guide used by The New York Times.
• Robots & Pencils Objective-C Style Guide - Our Objective-C coding style guide. Fall in line!
• The Official raywenderlich.com Objective-C Style Guide - A style guide that outlines the coding conventions for raywenderlich.com.
• The Official wantedly.com Objective-C Style Guide.
• Wonderful Objective-C Style Guide - A complete OSX and iOS Objective-C coding style guide.

Perl

• Apache OpenOffice Perl Coding Standards.
• Perl Style Guide.
• SEI CERT Perl Coding Standard.

PHP

• MediaWiki PHP Coding Conventions.
• ONGR Strict Coding Standard - Strict PHPCS standard for PSR-2 code based on Squiz standards.
• PHP Framework Interop Group Coding Style Guide.
• WordPress PHP Coding Standards.

Prolog

• Prolog Programming Guidelines.

Python

• Google Python Style Guide.
• MediaWiki Python Coding Conventions.
• PEP 8 Style Guide for Python Code.
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python Code Style.

R

• Advanced R Style Guide.
• Google's R Style Guide.

Ruby

• Airbnb's Ruby Style Guide - Ruby Style Guide.
• GitHub Ruby Coding Style.
• MediaWiki Ruby Coding Conventions.
• The Ruby Style Guide - A community-driven Ruby coding style guide.
• The Unofficial Ruby Usage Guide.

Ruby on Rails

• Contributing to Ruby on Rails.
• The Rails Style Guide - A community-driven Ruby on Rails 4 style guide.

Rust

• Rust Guidelines

Scala

• Scala Style Guide.

Shell

• Bash Style Guide - A style guide for writing safe, predictable, and portable bash scripts (not sh!).
• Community Bash Style Guide - (community-driven) guide to writing useful and modern bash scripts. seriously.
• Google Shell Style Guide.

Standard ML

• MLton's Syntactic Conventions.

Swift

• GitHub Swift Style Guide - Style guide & coding conventions for Swift projects.
• Swift Style Guide - SlideShare Swift Style Guide we are using for our upcoming iOS 8 only app written in Swift.
• The Official raywenderlich.com Swift Style Guide - The official Swift style guide for raywenderlich.com.
• The Swift Style Guide - The Swift Style Guide. This guide should help you to improve your Swift code style, its readability, consistency and simplicity.

VHDL

• VHDL Coding Style Guidelines.

Visual Basic

• Microsoft Visual Basic Coding Conventions.

XML

• Google XML Document Format Style Guide.

Miscellaneous

Changelog

• Keep a CHANGELOG - If you maintain an open source project, please keep a changelog.

Git

• Git Style Guide - A Git Style Guide.
• Git Style Guide - Personal guide for using git with GitHub.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

License

This list was created by Salvatore Gentile and is released under The MIT License (MIT).