Provide an official set of Coding Guidelines

[NoelAbrahams]

Hi,

There is an agreeable set of guidlines, apparently for TypeScript internal use. This can be published as an official guideline for general use, with a few modifications (by removing the ones that reference TypeScript internals).

(The only quibble I have is with "Use PascalCase for enum values" and "Use double quotes for strings".)

An official standard will be very useful for settling arguments within organisations.

Thanks!

[FedericoZanin]

An Official set of Coding Guidelines will be very useful.

[vvakame]

👍

[johnnyreilly]

👍 - I can live with less arguments

[zpdDG4gta8XKpMCd]

related #6168

[RyanCavanaugh]

Not sure why it took us 20 months to say this, but in general we're not interested in deciding stylistic things for people. Saying that there's One Approved Style for TS goes against our philosophy that we're here to provide types for JS regardless of how you're writing it (within reasonable parameters, of course 😉).

[NoelAbrahams]

Doesn't make any sense at all. A set of guidelines is not really about deciding anything for people - unless people explicitly wish that it should.

[kitsonk]

Doesn't make any sense at all. A set of guidelines is not really about deciding anything for people - unless people explicitly wish that it should.

There is a big difference between a well informed member of the TypeScript community at large promoting certain stylistic patterns, versus the producers of the language promoting those patterns, because they become "standards" and lead to lots of unintended consequences.

It is proper for the team to be pedantic about the coding style of the TypeScript compiler, but outside that, I agree with team, best for them to stay out of that business.

If parts of the wider community want to be strongly opinionated about the stylistic approach, we have tools like tslint which allow us to enforce those rules. Some people have shared their internal style guidelines, @basarat as his TypeScript Deep Dive guidelines and some projects, like our Dojo 2 have their project's guidelines.

[zpdDG4gta8XKpMCd]

out of curiosity, given everything said above,m how come coding standard exist for C#?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff926074.aspx