> I initially defended the choice, but I now agree that 1-based indexing now seems like a poor choice since Julia has become something more than the original mission of a better MATLAB or Octave. It’s a, admittedly, minor tragedy of Julia’s success
Especially since it would have been very easy to 'do it like Ada' and allow any start index by default (I have use Lua and it's really annoying to use an extension language with 1-index when the base language is 0-indexed)
Especially since it would have been very easy to 'do it like Ada' and allow any start index by default (I have use Lua and it's really annoying to use an extension language with 1-index when the base language is 0-indexed)