THE HUMAN SIDE OF STRUCTURED DATA
Everything YAML. Properly indented.
Stories, ideas and hard-won lessons from the language that quietly holds the modern software world together.
# Welcome to yaml.blog
topic: all things YAML
author:
name: Ingy döt Net
roles:
- YAML co-creator
- lead maintainer
focus:
- language design
- history
- tools & ecosystems
- what comes nextFROM THE SOURCE
More than configuration
YAML is read and written by millions of people, parsed by countless tools and embedded in nearly every corner of software. This is a place to look past the syntax and explore the decisions, people, surprises and ideas behind it.
Under the hood
Specifications, parsers, schemas and the details that make YAML YAML.
Then & now
Stories from YAML's origins and an honest look at how it keeps evolving.
Out in the wild
Tools, projects, patterns and the vast ecosystem built around the language.
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Where YAML began
In The Beginning
Before YAML there was XML, SML, a Perl module called Data::Denter and an hours-long phone call. The story of how it all came together.
YOUR HOST
Ingy döt Net
YAML co-creator and lead maintainer. Still asking what a human-friendly data language can become.