Disclaimer: Not a Julia user. 1. Base-1 indexing is more natural and less verbose. My suspicion is that base-0 indexing grew out of language implementers wanti

Disclaimer: Not a Julia user. 1. Base-1 indexing is more natural and less verbose. My suspicion is that base-0 indexing grew out of language implementers wanting to reduce their mental overhead rather than a first-principles approach. AKA machine code leaking out to the higher level languages. 2. You have to have some way of structuring syntax. Whether you have "end", ")" or "}". It is not inconsistent to start with something else, like a function signature with the corresponding keyword. Again Julia opts for natural readability. Both of these complaints are rather superficial anyways. Julia is a marvelous piece of tech and has an interesting story to tell about type inference, multiple dispatch, performance, data-structures, general Lisp-yness and the merits of tailoring a language for a purpose/domain (and its users) in contrast to trying to adhere to paradigms and programmer culture (cults?).