This is a guide to software development at the Netherlands eScience Center. It both serves as a source of information for how we work at the eScience Center, and as a basis for discussions and reaching consensus on this topic.
Read The Turing Way instead
If you are looking for an overall picture of best practices, read The Turing Way first. We joined forces with that guide for most of our generic research software engineering advice. Because The Turing Way is language agnostic, this guide mostly provides addtional specific language guides. Please be aware that most remaining language agnostic content is outdated, be careful when using it. We plan on removing that content (#286).
If you would like to contribute to this book see CONTRIBUTING.md.