# objc-zen/objc-zen-book

Zen and the Art of the Objective-C Craftsmanship

Repository: https://github.com/objc-zen/objc-zen-book
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/objc-zen-book
Language: Ruby
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2021-07-22T02:47:30+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4439, "days_push": 1868, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2644, forks 347 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:06.673754+00:00)

## What it is
An open-source book, 'Zen and the Art of the Objective-C Craftsmanship', offering guidelines and best practices for writing clean Objective-C code. It covers topics like naming conventions, conditionals, class design, and code organization.

## Use cases
- learn objective-c best practices
- improve objective-c code style
- objective-c naming conventions guide
- write cleaner objective-c code
- objective-c code organization tips
- understand objective-c design patterns

## When to choose
- you maintain or write Objective-C code and want a community-vetted style guide
- you are onboarding developers to an existing Objective-C codebase
- you want readable, opinionated guidance on idiomatic Objective-C patterns

## When to avoid
- your project is Swift-only, since the book's focus is Objective-C
- you need executable linting or automated enforcement rather than prose guidelines
- you need actively updated content, as the book is largely finished and rarely revised

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: maintenance
- function: documentation
- domain: programming-languages, tutorials, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: objective-c, style-guide, book, code-quality, swift, macos, ios

## Member repositories
- objc-zen/objc-zen-book (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:06.673754+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 2026-08-30T02:19:00.736558+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/objc-zen/objc-zen-book (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:06.673754+00:00, sha 4abe274b30d6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.