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YAMLScript is YS!

Greetings! And welcome back to YAMLScript External link in 2025!

Or as we now say, YS in '25!.

It's been a minute since our last update, but we've been working super hard to make YS the best it can be.

Oh… What's "YS", you say?

Well, don't say "Y-S"…

Say "Wise"!🔗

Think of YS as the plural of "Y".

The more Ys, the better!

Why didn't the owl ask Y?

She was 2 YS!

YS is the new nickname for YAMLScript. It's shorter, easier to write, and kinda fun to say. It's even more fun to add it to the start or end of a word. like "PennyYS" ("Pennywise") or "YSAcre".

We have quite a few little projects already that use YS and have it in their names. Like these:

  • HelmYS (Helmwise) - A project to use YS for Kubernetes Helm charts templates.
  • SchemaYS - A new schema language project for YAML created with YS.
  • MarkdownYS External link - A Markdown preprocessor that uses inline YS and YAML to generate repetitive content from data. Click View (eye icon) at the top of the YS Standard Library doc to see it in action.

We even have a short new domain name "getys.org" for YS downloads/installs: 

curl -s https://getys.org/ys | bash  # Install the latest YS

Love at Second Site🔗

Check out our new yamlscript.org website External link !

Material for MkDocs External link is so great. We love it!

I honestly don't think there will ever be a better framework for making static websites. It's so feature rich and all the features actually work together. Almost every feature is configured with a line or two of YAML. What could be better than that?

We even added a few new YS features in places where we needed them, and there was very little work to do it.

I'll write a full blog post about the new website soon, (the blog plugin makes it so easy to write and publish posts), but for now, here's a few highlights:

  • Almost every page has a "View Source", "Edit this Page", or "Discuss this Page" button at the top. Including this one! Try them out.
  • All pages are written in Markdown or MarkdownYS, so it should be trivial for you to contribute if you want to add, fix or discuss something.
  • Everything on the site is part of the YS Open Source Mono-Repo External link in the www directory on the website branch.

So Many YS Bits to Share…🔗

I'm really looking forward to sharing all the new YS features with you. Now that we have the perfect platform for writing and publishing, I expect to be writing a whole lot more very soon.

Until then, take care and be YS!