It's best to consider YAML in it's appropriate context as a better XML fragment. The ideas in YAML evolved into JSON which is preferable today. However at the

It's best to consider YAML in it's appropriate context as a better XML fragment. The ideas in YAML evolved into JSON which is preferable today. However at the time, a tree data format that deserialized into native types was quite useful. The alternative was writing event based SAX parsers, or incredibly verbose XML object apis.