What is YAML?

YAML FULL FORM:

• Previous it was - “Yet another markup language”
• Now it is - “YAML Ain't Markup Language”

But why this happened:

• Because markup languages are used to store documents, like HTML stores documents, in YAML you can also store data, like not just documents but objects data as well that’s why it’s known as “YAML ain’t markup language”

What it is:

• YAML is a human-friendly data serialization language for all programming languages.
• It’s not a programming language, it’s a data format used to exchange data.
• It is similar to XML & JSON
• In YAML, you can store only data and not commands.

YAML is serialization and deserialization language:

Data Serialization languages:

• YAML
• JSON
• XML