A comprehensive style guide for writing clean, consistent, and idiomatic Swift code, with an accompanying linter.
Prolific's Swift Style Guide is a set of coding standards and best practices for writing Swift code. It provides detailed guidelines on naming conventions, file structure, type usage, error handling, and more to ensure code consistency and readability across projects. The guide is complemented by a custom SwiftLint fork to automate rule enforcement.
Swift developers and teams looking to standardize their codebases, particularly those working on iOS, macOS, or other Apple platform applications who value clean and maintainable code.
Developers choose this guide because it offers a well-reasoned, comprehensive set of standards that align with Apple's Swift design philosophy, includes automated linting support, and emphasizes practical clarity over arbitrary rules.
A style guide for Swift.
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Provides detailed rules for naming types, functions, and variables with clear examples from the README, such as preferring 'remove(at:)' over 'remove(index:)' for clarity.
Includes a forked version of SwiftLint with additional rules specific to the guide, enabling automated style enforcement as highlighted in the Linter section.
Emphasizes Swift-native types and error handling over Objective-C patterns, aligning with Apple's language design for concise and expressive code, as seen in the Types and Error Handling sections.
Specifies standardized organization for Swift files, including ordering of properties and extensions, which aids maintainability and is detailed in the File Structure standards.
Relies on a forked SwiftLint that may require extra setup and maintenance, and could lag behind updates from the main SwiftLint repository, as admitted in the Linter section.
Enforces strict guidelines like avoiding force unwraps and mandatory file structuring, which might be too rigid for teams preferring flexibility or iterative development.
The README does not specify compatibility with newer Swift versions, risking obsolescence if not regularly updated for language evolution or community trends.