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A Programming Style Guide, also known as Programming Style, Style Guide, or Code Style, is a set of rules or guidelines used when writing the source code for a computer program. It is often claimed that following a particular programming style will help programmers read and understand source code conforming to the style, and help to avoid introducing errors.

Programming Styles Guides are generally designed for a specific programming language (or language family, such as C/C+). For example, a style considered good in C source code may not be appropriate for BASIC source code, etc. However, some rules are commonly applied to many languages (C/C+,Java, C#, Rust, etc.).

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_style

Widely accepted style guides are ¹⁾:

• Google’s Style Guides
• JavaScript Standard Style
• GitHub’s Ruby Style Guide
• Python Foundation’s Style Guide
• Airbnb’s JavaScript Style Guide
• Angular’s Style Guide

Note: There is an exception list of Coding Styles compiled by Wahyu Kristianto at Awesome Guidelines