[2] Yabasic was originally developed by Marc-Oliver Ihm, who released the last stable version 2.77.3 in 2016.

From version 2.77.1, the project has adopted the MIT License as well as the source code being moved to GitHub to encourage others to participate in its development.

Flyab added the ability to Yabasic to create native graphical user interfaces on all supported platforms.

Main difficulty was to fully implement the layout commands to FLTK, as used from the BeOS version.

Sony also packaged a version of Yabasic for the PlayStation 2 on the demo disc[5] shipped with PS2 consoles in PAL territories so it could be considered a home computer, not just a games machine, thus bypassing European import taxes.