The yaml package enables go programs to very comfortably encode and decode yaml values. it was developed within canonical as part of the juju project, and is based on a pure go port of the well-known libyaml c library to parse and generate yaml data quickly and reliably.

the yaml package supports most of yaml 1.1 and 1.2, including support for anchors, tags, map merging, etc. multi-document unmarshalling is not yet implemented, and base-60 floats from yaml 1.1 are purposefully not supported since they're a poor design and are gone in yaml 1.2.

this package is an incompatible successor to golang-goyaml ("gonuts.org/v1/yaml", and then renamed to "gopkg.in/yaml.v1").