YAML emitters and parsers exist for many popular languages. Most of them are written in the native language itself. Some are language bindings of the C library "libyaml"; they may run faster. There used to be another C library, called "Syck", written and orphaned by why the lucky stiff: it is unmaintained, there is no authoritative source bundle, and the web site has been hijacked. Hence the only recommendable C library is "libyaml". It was originally developed by Kirill Simonov. In 2018, development was resumed by the new maintainers Ian Cordasco and Ingy döt Net.