As someone who should be in the target audience for Julia, I am sad to see that they have not switched to 0-based arrays before launching version 1.0. I consider this is an indication of a broken design process and thus a reason to stay away from the language. (The fact that ranges include both endpoints - rather than being half-open as in Python - is another such indication.)
> the fact that ranges include both endpoints - rather than being half-open as in Python - is another such indication
No, it's the same indication, twice. Once you've decided on 1-based, you almost definitely want to include both endpoints. Else you end up saying things like a[1:n+1] to indicate "the whole array please", which is annoying.
