It's GC, but that can be turned off and you can use manual memory management or you can simply use one of a handful of GC methods that work for you (in my experience, the GC is very performant). It has easy syntax like Python. It can be compiled to C, C++, ObjC, or JS (currently). It has tons of meta-programming features like templates, macros, etc. It can be cross-compiled fairly easily to almost any platform. It has whatever high level stuff you want to use, or just don't use them. It's not 1.0 yet, but it's pretty stable overall and the current release is feature-full enough that you could do just about anything with it that you want, right now. It's also got a really easy to use FFI. It's also about as fast as C, in practice.
It's GC, but that can be turned off and you can use manual memory management or you can simply use one of a handful of GC methods that work for you (in my experience, the GC is very performant). It has easy syntax like Python. It can be compiled to C, C++, ObjC, or JS (currently). It has tons of meta-programming features like templates, macros, etc. It can be cross-compiled fairly easily to almost any platform. It has whatever high level stuff you want to use, or just don't use them. It's not 1.0 yet, but it's pretty stable overall and the current release is feature-full enough that you could do just about anything with it that you want, right now. It's also got a really easy to use FFI. It's also about as fast as C, in practice.