Command-line argument parser offering declarative and procedural APIs, builder-style DSL, subcommands, validation, and rich flag/option handling — faithful, feature-rich port of a mature upstream design.
This is a Kotlin Multiplatform line-by-line transliteration port of clap-rs/clap.
Original Project: This port is based on clap-rs/clap. All design credit and project intent belong to the upstream authors; this repository is a faithful port to Kotlin Multiplatform with no behavioural changes intended.
This is an in-progress port. The goal is feature parity with the upstream Rust crate while providing a native Kotlin Multiplatform API. Every Kotlin file carries a // port-lint: source <path> header naming its upstream Rust counterpart so the AST-distance tool can track provenance.
clap-rs/clapThe text below is reproduced and lightly edited from
https://github.com/clap-rs/clap. It is the upstream project's own description and remains under the upstream authors' authorship; links have been rewritten to absolute upstream URLs so they continue to resolve from this repository.
Command Line Argument Parser for Rust
Dual-licensed under Apache 2.0 or MIT.
$ cargo add clap
Create your command-line parser, with all of the bells and whistles, declaratively or procedurally.
For more details, see:
dependencies {
implementation("io.github.kotlinmania:clap-kotlin:0.1.1")
}
./gradlew build
./gradlew test
See AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md for translator discipline, port-lint header convention, and Rust → Kotlin idiom mapping.
This Kotlin port is distributed under the same MIT license as the upstream clap-rs/clap. See LICENSE (and any sibling LICENSE-* / NOTICE files mirrored from upstream) for the full text.
Original work copyrighted by the clap authors.
Kotlin port: Copyright (c) 2026 Sydney Renee and The Solace Project.
Thanks to the clap-rs/clap maintainers and contributors for the original Rust implementation. This port reproduces their work in Kotlin Multiplatform; bug reports about upstream design or behavior should go to the upstream repository.
Surfaced from shared tags and platforms — no rankings paid for.