# github/objective-c-style-guide

**Archived** Style guide & coding conventions for Objective-C projects

Repository: https://github.com/github/objective-c-style-guide
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/github-objective-c-style-guide
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2017-11-08T16:07:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5089, "days_push": 3220, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1665, forks 241 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:19.036243+00:00)

## What it is
A style guide and coding conventions document for Objective-C projects, originally maintained by GitHub. It covers whitespace, documentation, declarations, and other code style rules building on Apple's Cocoa guidelines.

## Use cases
- objective-c code style conventions
- how to format objective-c code
- objective-c coding standards for teams
- naming and property declaration rules in objective-c
- style guide for cocoa development

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new project in Swift or another modern language
- you need an actively maintained or enforced style guide with tooling support

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: abandoned
- function: documentation, linter
- domain: developer-tools, programming-languages, documentation
- platform: cpp
- tags: objective-c, style-guide, coding-conventions, archived, cocoa, macos, ios

## Member repositories
- github/objective-c-style-guide (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:19.036243+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:44:26.354297+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/github/objective-c-style-guide (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:19.036243+00:00, sha af5873762845)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.