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October 1, 2021
in announcements, specification
2 min read

A New YAML Specification

We are excited to announce the release of Revision 1.2.2 of the YAML 1.2 Specification. This revision comes 12 years to the day after the previous revision.

December 12, 2020
in history, yaml
6 min read

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?!