Hacker News with Generative AI: Code Style

Indentation Style: Notable Styles (wikipedia.org)
In computer programming, indentation style is a convention, a.k.a. style, governing the indentation of blocks of source code.
Programming, Code Style, Software Development, Conventions
11 points by computerbuster 61 days ago | 18 comments
Delimiter-First Code (deepnote.com)
This article points wider use of delimiter-first style in code.
Programming, Code Style, Software Development
18 points by andrewg4445 148 days ago | 4 comments
German Naming Convention (chrisdone.com)
This is what I consider good naming convention. I discovered this convention while working with a German colleague, who, I’d always joked, uses long variable names, and almost never abbreviates anything. However, the more I read his code, the more I realised I was able to read the story he was trying to tell, and appreciated it a lot: Using as many words as necessary to clearly name something. Everything.
Programming, Software Development, Code Style
47 points by thunderbong 158 days ago | 23 comments
Is the 80 character line limit still relevant? (2008) (richarddingwall.name)
Traditionally, it’s always been standard practice for programmers to wrap long lines of code so they don’t span more than 80 characters across the screen.
Programming, Code Style, Software Development, History
69 points by azefiel 165 days ago | 178 comments
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Naming Integers (ziglang.org)
Lately my Zig code has started to look like this in all my projects:
Programming Languages, Zig, Code Style, Naming Conventions
15 points by ingve 171 days ago | 14 comments
Why Not Comments (buttondown.com)
Code is written in a structured machine language, comments are written in an expressive human language. The "human language" bit makes comments more expressive and communicative than code. Code has a limited amount of something like human language contained in identifiers. "Comment the why, not the what" means to push as much information as possible into identifiers. Not all "what" can be embedded like this, but a lot can.
Programming, Software Development, Code Style
261 points by ghewgill 228 days ago | 277 comments
Identifiers are better off without meaning (varoa.net)
Programming, Software Development, Code Style
33 points by srvaroa 358 days ago | 34 comments
The origin and virtues of semicolons in programming languages (ntietz.com)
Programming Languages, Semicolons, Code Style
46 points by nalgeon 376 days ago | 19 comments