Comment by Posibyte

The author takes this into consideration:

  * yes, I know ‘low-level’ is a subjective term 

I used to work in the embedded world, and there C has historically been considered a "high-level" language for many platforms. However, we have started to see languages like C# and Python make their way into the world of tiny micros thanks to more power coming to the platforms themselves and the clever work being done by MicroPython and Microsoft.