# go-yaml/yaml

YAML support for the Go language.

Repository: https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/yaml
Language: Go
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Archived: true
Last push: 2025-04-01T17:00:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 14, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4564, "days_push": 519, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7019, forks 1115 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:54.897551+00:00)

## What it is
A Go library for encoding and decoding YAML, based on a pure Go port of libyaml. It supports most of YAML 1.2 with some YAML 1.1 compatibility, but is now explicitly unmaintained.

## Use cases
- parse yaml config files in go
- encode go structs to yaml
- decode yaml into go structs
- read kubernetes-style yaml manifests
- serialize configuration as yaml

## When to choose
- you need mature, battle-tested YAML support in Go and accept no future fixes
- you need YAML 1.1 compatibility behaviors like yes/no booleans

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained library with active bug fixes and security patches
- you need multi-document unmarshalling
- starting a new project where a maintained fork is available

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: serialization, parser
- domain: developer-tools, files, backend
- platform: go, cross-platform
- tags: yaml, go, unmaintained, encoding, decoding

## Member repositories
- go-yaml/yaml (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:54.897551+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:40:38.126229+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/go-yaml/yaml (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:54.897551+00:00, sha f69098454488)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.