JS/Elixir string indexing interoperability

Unicode is hard.
Unicode is very hard.
Unicode is enormously hard.


If you want to have consistent behaviour then operate on bytes. So you will use Blob or Uint8Array on JS side and binaries on Elixir side. I think it would be the simplest way. I hope that what you are describing (as I assume you want to created distributed concurrent text editor) is CRDT like LSEQ.