[pjmlp]

You could, but given that even C and Pascal hardly take advantage of Z80, and have to be used as some kind of fancy macro Assembler, better just deal with Z80 Assembly directly.

But then I am biased, having the Z80 opcodes burned in my brain due to the Speccy days.

[flatiron]

I believe it also tosses everything on the stack which is certainly not optimal for the z80