{"id":253991,"date":"2026-05-24T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T10:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/kernelscript-a-programming-language-for-kernel-customization-app-optimizations\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T07:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T11:20:10","slug":"kernelscript-a-programming-language-for-kernel-customization-app-optimizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/kernelscript-a-programming-language-for-kernel-customization-app-optimizations\/","title":{"rendered":"KernelScript: A Programming Language For Kernel Customization &#038; App Optimizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/KernelScript\">KernelScript: A Programming Language For Kernel Customization &#038; App Optimizations<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/KernelScript\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/KernelScript<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-24 06:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Multikernel Technologies Inc has been working on a multi-kernel architecture for the Linux kernel while in addition to that they have been developing KernelScript as a domain-specific language for carrying out Linux kernel customizations and app-specific optimizations.<\/p>\n<p>Cong Wang as the founder of Multikernel Technologies presented at the Linux Foundation&#8217;s Open-Source Summit this past week in Minnesota on KernelScript. KernelScript aims to make it easier to write eBPF programs than plain C code and integrate nicely across Linux projects. KernelScript, which is currently considered beta, aims to unify eBPF, user-space, and kernel extension development into a type-safe language.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=kernelscript_1_med\" alt=\"KernelScript program\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cong Wage argues that eBPF is &#8220;miserable to write&#8221; while KernelScript hopes to make it less painful with it emitting appropriate C code for eBPF, user-space code, and kernel modules.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=kernelscript_2_med\" alt=\"KernelScript comparison\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Not only does KernelScript view itself as a better alternative to raw C-based eBPF programs but also easier than Rust eBPF programs and more versatile than bpftrace.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=kernelscript_3_med\" alt=\"KernelScript\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In theory this sounds great and will be interesting to see how it plays out as it matures past its beta stage. <\/p>\n<p>Those wanting to learn more about KernelScript can find the presentation assets via the OSS 2026 presentation page. The KernelScript code is hosted on GitHub.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/KernelScript\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KernelScript: A Programming Language For Kernel Customization &#038; App Optimizations https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/KernelScript Publish Date: 2026-05-24 06:55:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=kernelscript_1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-253991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253996,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253991\/revisions\/253996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}