Ebe is an integrated development environment developed primarily for teaching assembly language. It also allows development in C, C++ and Fortran. The primary goal is to make development as simple as possible for beginners. To that end a program can consist of a single source code file and the Run button builds the program and runs it using gdb internally as a debugger.
One advantage of ebe for assembly language is the ability to define local variables simply while editing. The user can click on a variable name or an address in a register and define a variable using a popup menu. The variable is then displayed each time gdb returns control back to ebe.
To permit programming C/assembly mixed programming, ebe allows a very simple form of projects which is not required for simpler programs.
The first version of ebe was written in Python, using tkinter and pmw for GUI support. This version is written in C++ using QT, primarily for more sophisticated controls.