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by Redoubts 3933 days ago
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/558

  > There is a huge discussion about this on the mailing list; please see that. If 0 is mathematically "better", then why does the field of mathematics itself start indexes at 1? We have chosen 1 to be more similar to existing math software.

A post above also appeals to mathematica. It's been a while since I've had to internalize the "cost" of zero indexing, so this never felt very compelling.