So what's the actual reason you'd want to have zero based arrays and such in your language (In 2020, not 1970)? In a language from scratch that doesn't care about being like previous ones, and doesn't care about micro optimization.

I've been annoyed recently by this obnoxious neckbeard behavior when they make things zero based for no reason (other than to conform to their supposedly existent philosophy), like Ratpoison and Screen selecting windows by a zero based index, which means you have to move your hand to the far right of the keyboard to select the first window with the 0 key, the far left to select the second window, with the 1 key, and one to the right to select the third window, with the 2 key.

I so happen to have been trying to work out a tangible explanation on paper of which system is better on trips a few weeks ago, and could not come up with one (and none are given in the article nor the top comments in this thread).

On a side note, the moment you say, "zeroeth", you can no longer be sure anyone knows what you're talking about because at any moment you may count in English or this pretentious UN*Xtard dialect of English. Seems like another pedagogical stumbling block held on to boomers and boomer-wannabes who just want to have their little counter counter counter culture or whatever.