Every desktop shell that reads typikon today runs the binary and parses
its JSON. That costs about 1.5ms and is the right answer for a calendar
that changes once a day, but it is the wrong shape for anything with an
FFI and no business spawning a process on every redraw.
Dates cross as Julian Day Numbers, so no struct layout is part of the
contract. A day is opaque and owns its strings, built once when it is
reckoned: an accessor returns the same borrowed pointer every time, so a
statusline polling one in a loop allocates nothing. The accessors carry
every field of the JSON, so nothing on the other side needs a parser.
The Python bindings and this were resolving a jurisdiction by two copies
of the same logic, and the copy here leaked one per call. Both now share
jurisdictions::resolve_full, which interns the combinations instead.
The header is a promise made in a second file, and a second file drifts:
a test reads both and fails if either has a symbol the other does not,
and does the same for the LuaJIT cdef, where a stale declaration is a
segfault rather than a compile error.