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The YAML Blog

Essays, stories and news about all things YAML, written from the perspective of a co-creator and lead maintainer of the language.

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A Blog About YAML? It's About Time.

Hi. I'm Ingy.

I helped invent YAML, I lead its maintenance and, after more than 25 years, I still have things to say about it.

Quite a few things, as it turns out.

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Welcome to The YAML Blog.

In The Beginning

Welcome to our new YAML blog!

This is the very first post. It's the Beginning. But that's not what the post is about.

This is the story of how the YAML data language got its start as far back as 1999. The web was taking over the world. Rich content was flying around the globe and into your eyeballs in milliseconds, all delivered in plain text package. HTML! Amazing! Hey, let's abstract it a bit and it will become the end-all format for all the world's data communication. We'll call it XML! What could go wrong?!