[pron]

I don't have any particular examples in hand, but the question you're asking is one that's tough to answer because the languages that might be as ergonomic as Haskell in that regard and are also low-level are significantly more complex than either Haskell or Zig, and so I don't think we have a good point of comparison (I think Zig is revolutionary). There is definitely a price to pay for being a high-control/low-level language, and it certainly requires that you spend some of your "complexity budget" on things that high-level languages like Haskell or Java don't have to. But I think Zig shows that you can be both low-level and reasonably "expressive" without also being so much more complex than most high-level languages.