Flargs: parsimonious parsing of flags and arguments

While working on a small CLI for encrypting and decrypting files, I found myself unstatisfied with the practice of writing, and testing, and reasoning about a CLI in Go. The flag package was not pleasant to work with. Testing was hard and inelegant, and the whole concept of a CLI is leaky. So I pulled out my hair, and cursed at the sky.

Then, I distilled the problem down its constiuent parts, and wrapped them in Flargs. At it’s …

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