Hejsil/zig-clap

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1604 stars · 98 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

zig-clap is a simple and easy-to-use command line argument parsing library for Zig. It supports short and long arguments, chained flags, multiple value-passing styles, and help message generation and parsing.

Use cases

• parse command line arguments in a zig program
• generate help messages from parameter specifications
• handle short and long cli flags with values
• support chained flags like -abc in a cli tool
• parse help text back into parameter specifications

When to choose

• you are writing a command line tool in Zig and need argument parsing
• you want automatic help message generation from parameter specs
• you need flexible value-passing syntaxes like -a=100 or -a100

When to avoid

• your project is not written in Zig
• you need declarative argument parsing with code generation for other languages

Facets

library · maturity active

parser cli developer-tools developer-tools parsers cli cross-platform argument-parsing zig command-line-parser command-line

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