Use clap derive for argument parsing

rust

use clap::Parser;

#[derive(Parser, Debug)]
struct Args {
  #[arg(long)]
  verbose: bool,

  #[arg(long, default_value = ".")]
  path: String,
}

Explanation

The `clap` ecosystem is a common choice for Rust CLI argument parsing.

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