BPF works more like Java, where you have your high-level source code, then a JIT compiler translates it to bytecode that runs on a VM. Even BPF “programs” writt

BPF works more like Java, where you have your high-level source code, then a JIT compiler translates it to bytecode that runs on a VM. Even BPF “programs” written in C aren’t using a standard C compiler. The BPF JIT compiler translates them to bytecode. The subset of C you can use is fairly limited, only what their compiler supports. So what people have done is written compilers that can take Go or Python and compile it to BPF bytecode.