I haven't used PHP for CLI scripting, however I've used Python and Golang. I can say that Golang argument library (flag) feels more straightforward to me than Python's argparse.

  import "flag"
  var ip = flag.Int("flagname", 1234, "help message for flagname")
  ...
  // flag.Parse() once in the main function

vs

  import argparse
  parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
  parser.add_argument("square", help="display a square of a   given number",
                    type=int)
  ...
  args = parser.parse_args()

In the Go example you get a pointer just like in C, in the python example you get a special object and can access its fields. Both are simple, but Golang is IMHO closer to C in this matter.

PHP and C have getopt in their standard library which work mostly the same way.

flag package bothers me because it breaks getopt conventions for no good reason.

  >  .  . . argument parsing . . .
  > Node has none.

https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/process.html#process_proc...

> https://nodejs.org/docs/latest/api/process.html#process_proc....

This is not argument parsing. I'm pretty sure Node doesn't even do anything, it just gets an array of strings from the CLI, argv C style isn't getting options prefixed with - or -- directly from the CLI, and putting them in a map or something. So no, node has no facility in its standard library for that. Node is not known for its extensive standard library in anyway.