Coding Style Conventions and Standards

A curated list of Coding Style Conventions and Standards.

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C

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

C#

• C# Coding Standards and Naming Conventions.
• 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++ 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.

Git

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

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.
• 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.
• 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.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

License

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