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by cultus 2873 days ago
You get used to the 1-based indexing pretty quick. It's a non-issue. 1-based indexing is the standard in math, and also Matlab and Fortran. For the primary use-case of Julia, it makes sense. Julia REALLY tries to be easy for Matlab users, who still dwarf Python users in science.
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> Julia REALLY tries to be easy for Matlab users

Not so much currently:

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-eye-has-been-deprecate...