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Python was never the house language here: the mw-* desktop surface it came
from is 39 bash scripts and was exactly one Python script, the one this was
extracted from. What it cost was distribution, a widget dependency that
needed pipx and a Python floor, and 24ms of interpreter startup before a line
of the program ran.

The port is verified rather than asserted. Both implementations were run over
199,446 day-records, 26 jurisdictions across 21 years, with every field of
every record required to match; the JSON, the iCalendar and 480 renderings of
the text output are identical too. examples/dump.rs is the harness.

What the type system actually buys, which is less than the usual claim and
more than nothing:

  - Level is an ordered enum, strictest first, so  reads as 'a is
    stricter' and relaxed_to() is the one place a feast can lift a fast. No
    rule can get the direction backwards.
  - Date is a newtype over the Julian Day Number and JulianDate is a separate
    type, so a civil date and an ecclesiastical one cannot be mixed up. That
    confusion is the single most common way calendar code goes wrong.
  - Octets is a newtype in the iCalendar folder, because the bug it replaced
    counted characters against a limit RFC 5545 states in octets.
  - Movables is a struct, not a map, so a mistyped key is a compile error
    rather than a None at the far end of the program.

Of the six defects an adversarial review found in the Python, exactly one had
a shape a type system would have caught. The rest were logic, and the tests
came with them.

The menologion is compiled in with include_str!, so the binary answers on its
own: 930KB, no runtime, 1.2ms to start against Python's 36ms.

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