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> There is no single canonical suite of best practices.

There kind of is, though. Most software engineering books argue for the same things, from the Mythical Man Month to Clean Architecture.

> Different languages have their opinions on how you should organise your code

In general best practices are discussed in a language-agnostic manner.

Software engineering is context dependent.

Take a look at e.g goto

Using goto in C is normal thing

Using goto in C# web dev will get you a weird look during review

Using goto in C# stdlib dev is viable

So as you see good practices arent just tech dependent, but also product (and many more) dependent