Ask HN: Example of a good dev standards document?

1 pointrossdavidh3 comments

I am about to write a dev standards document for a new open source library. Most that I have seen in the past are too long and thus rarely read or remembered. Can you point me to examples of good coding standards documents, that actually got read and followed?

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I have never seen a coding standards document that everyone read completely and much less followed. Best way of ensuring coding standards is to enforce it automatically with a formatter, like Go does. And perhaps you can generate the standards document from the defined rules.

So, it's not just me, then.

Waiting for an answer to this one.

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