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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subject: all things YAML
author: Ingy döt Net
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Welcome to The YAML Blog.
We found the old blog¶
We already had a couple of YAML posts tucked away at yaml.com. They were tucked away very well. So well, in fact, that the site navigation couldn't find them.
That seemed less than ideal for a blog.
Those posts now live here, including the story of YAML's beginnings and the announcement of the YAML 1.2.2 specification. This new site gives them—and everything that comes next—a proper home.
Why another YAML site?¶
yaml.org is the official home of the language and its specification. yaml.com is about the projects, people and professional work that sustain the YAML ecosystem.
This site is for stories.
YAML is one of those technologies that people use every day without often stopping to wonder how it got that way. Why does a plain scalar behave like that? What exactly is an alias? Why did YAML 1.2 change booleans? What should the next generation of parsers preserve? How did three people on a mailing list end up helping shape modern software infrastructure?
There are technical answers, historical answers and occasionally answers that begin with, “Well, it seemed like a good idea in 2001.”
I want to write down all three.
What belongs here?¶
Expect posts about the language specification, parser design, schemas, tooling, interoperability, YAML's history and the projects pushing it forward. There will be practical explanations, experiments, opinions and stories from behind the scenes.
There may even be a few attempts to settle internet arguments about YAML. No promises on that last one.
If you are new to the language, the new YAML FAQ answers some of the questions we hear most often. If you have a question it does not answer, come find the YAML community in our Matrix chat. Your question might become a post.
Let's talk YAML.
— Ingy döt Net