> You are supposed to do as much programming as you can in the high level language, and only drop into the low level language as needed.

I think that's a neat idea, but in the reverse: do as much as you can in the lower level language, and only go up to the high level language when the convenience is worth the cost.

Roc allows this: every program has a platform written in a low-level language, and then the Roc program uses the API that the platform exposes.

https://www.roc-lang.org/

Then how you want to balance high vs low is of course up to you :^)

The OG of these is probably C and Assembly. C and (Emacs) Lisp is well known. Arguably, it's the entire reason we have Python. But if you want to pair Zig against something, I would look at Lua.

C# is close to achieving that goal.

this was the general motivation for my project zigler:

https://github.com/E-xyza/zigler