[cmrdporcupine]

You'd get used to it eventually. Many of us had to go the other way. I grew up with BASIC and Wirth languages (Pascal, Modula-2, etc) that were 1-indexed and to this day even after 25, 30 years of working professionally in 0-based indexed languages I still catch myself here and there having to adjust (and whiteboard coding can sometimes throw me off under pressure), but clearly operate just fine.

I worked briefly professionally in Julia a couple years ago, which is 1-indexed, and I found it an easy transition, really. Many scientific computing things are 1-indexed, as Fortran was, too, among other reasons.

My own project is a rewrite / defibrilation of the 1990s LambdaMOO server (https://codeberg.org/timbran/moor/), which had its own OO programming language that was 1-indexed.

It's just not as "weird" as people think, I think it's just a generation of people grew up with C-derived languages and have grown to expect 0 as "normal" when it's really just "accident of history/popularity". I don't think it's objectionable that Lua chose 1-indexing, it is actually more "friendly" to newcomers to programming.

[pklausler]

As Fortran is, not was.

[cmrdporcupine]

Yeah fair enough. I was speaking more about historic influence. Fortran is still extensively used, but it was more influential 40 years ago than it is now.