Author here, thanks for linking my article. It is a bit of a curse that every time this article ends up anywhere, the discussion quickly devolves onto the meri

Author here, thanks for linking my article. It is a bit of a curse that every time this article ends up anywhere, the discussion quickly devolves onto the merits of 0-based indexing. I have a very strong opinion on this which is that "it doesn't matter". You use whatever paradigm is real in the language you're working. The context switch is not larger than the context switch between languages anyway. Lua is not the single 1-based indexing language out there, it used to be much more prevalent. I bet if JS had used 1-based indexing, half the people on this comment threads would just be praising the benefits of 1-based indexing. Sorry for the rant, but the reason I wrote that article in the first place is because I of such threads. One thing I agree with many people here is that my baby example is not the best example. It is not wrong, but it is phrased in a confusing way. I'm tempted to edit the article and fix it or replace the example with something better. After all, the example is not important, it was just an example. One aspect that many people don't realise, one that I couldn't really dive into in the article, is how simple and small the Lua source-code actually is. IIRC it is about 70 files of plain old C that can be compiled by any C99 compiler. That is very refreshing. The amount of power and flexibility you have with Lua when paired with the simplicity and maintainability of the Lua source-code itself is something we should all cherish and praise. Lua is small and nimble, it is small enough that you can vendor all of it in your project if you so want. Anyway, I like 1-based indexing, they make my loops prettier. And yes, it was just a joke, I'm using iterators like everyone else and indexing hardly matter.