I don't get that 1 based indexing debate in regard to LUA and Julia. Both came up recently on hackernews. In LUA you can use the metatable functionality to imp

I don't get that 1 based indexing debate in regard to LUA and Julia. Both came up recently on hackernews. In LUA you can use the metatable functionality to implement 0 based indexes. In Julia you can overload the array access operation too. There a packages which allow zero based indexing. Or even StarWars based indexing including the machete viewing order. https://github.com/giordano/StarWarsArrays.jl https://github.com/giordano/StarWarsArrays.jl Julia's array interface has has functionality what the first/last index is, so you can use it in other peoples code. If they haer coded 1 as first index just make a pull request to fix it.