# nytimes/objective-c-style-guide

The Objective-C Style Guide used by The New York Times

Repository: https://github.com/nytimes/objective-c-style-guide
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/objective-c-style-guide
Homepage: http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/objectively-stylish/
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-05-09T17:23:08+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4781, "days_push": 1212, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5818, forks 1236 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:30.044481+00:00)

## What it is
The New York Times' Objective-C style guide documenting coding conventions for their iOS teams, covering naming, spacing, error handling, and other style rules. It is now officially deprecated with no further development.

## Use cases
- adopt consistent objective-c coding conventions for an ios team
- learn objective-c style best practices
- reference naming and formatting rules for legacy ios codebases
- compare objective-c style guides before writing a team standard
- onboard new developers to an existing objective-c codebase

## When to choose
- you maintain or read legacy Objective-C iOS code and want a well-known conventions reference
- you want a battle-tested style guide from a large engineering organization

## When to avoid
- you are starting a new iOS project in Swift
- you need an actively maintained or enforceable linting tool rather than a document

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

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

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:30.044481+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 2026-08-29T17:52:11.638308+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nytimes/objective-c-style-guide (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:30.044481+00:00, sha 7f0cfa0dc6d5)
  - homepage: http://open.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/01/objectively-stylish/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:47:56.522642+00:00, sha 34d477f671f6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.