[acmj]

> all serious numerical languages have that. it's more natural

And almost all serious general-purpose languages use 0-based. It is more natural at least to me. You see, this is exactly why 1-based index of Julia is disliked by many.

[xiaodai]

taichi and julia aren't exactly aimed at general-purposes folks like u though. so there's that.

you may not like rachel macadams, but she was never gonna be urs anyway. so meh

[wpietri]

If your goal is to promote Julia, your comments here are having exactly the opposite effect on me.

Style aside, you can't simultaneously complain that Julia doesn't get the resources of a general-audience language and then talk down to "general-purposes folks". Julia could be the bees knees for math-y stuff. And if so, good for it. But Python's success is because its flexibility makes it pretty good for a wide range of things, even if it'll never be great for any one of them.

[xiaodai]

i bet u dont do numerical computing so julia ain't for u anyway.

i love python. in fact, in my daily run on cloud run it's one of the key component since it has a decent gcp client library for writing query code to bigquery.

but then i glue it up with bash and run some other analysis in julia.

i think you can have python, julia, bash, r, whatever. heck, i even dabled in go and react.

just saying julia is aimed at numerical first.

and i think 0-based indexing was merely a historical accident anyway due to lack of memory in early computers so use every last bit including the 0 even though it's not suitable for indexing but is suited for calculating mem offsets.

whatever, use whatever u like, not trying to promote julia to you or anyone else. just having a good argument on friday afternoon

[wpietri]

Just to be clear, I am saying that you "having a good argument" is harming my impression of Julia. And you, of course.