diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index a255e18..fd99892 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -15,4 +15,6 @@ node_modules
 
 # ignore build & dist folders
 build
-dist
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+dist
+
+target
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diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9886a9c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# This file is automatically @generated by Cargo.
+# It is not intended for manual editing.
+version = 3
+
+[[package]]
+name = "simple_media_upscale_lite_cli"
+version = "0.1.0"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ee21fb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+[package]
+name = "simple_media_upscale_lite_cli"
+version = "0.1.0"
+edition = "2021"
+
+# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
+
+[lib]
+name = "lib"
+path = "src/lib.rs"
+
+[dependencies]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fb99c5e..ea7cc1f 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
 </div>
 smuL (pronounced like "small") is an Electron App with Python CLI to upscale images and videos using multiple different upscaling engines. 
 
+# Ongoing change: New CLI
+smuL's CLI is currently getting a complete overhaul and is being rewritten in Rust. Don't expect any more updates to the Python CLI.
+
 # Functionality
 This app allows you to upscale a single file or (in the future) a full on folder with one of many different engines that can be added as plugins.
 - Choose an input & output file from a GUI filemanager.
diff --git a/bin/__pycache__/handler.cpython-311.pyc b/bin/__pycache__/handler.cpython-311.pyc
index 62915c6..5c8fd31 100644
Binary files a/bin/__pycache__/handler.cpython-311.pyc and b/bin/__pycache__/handler.cpython-311.pyc differ
diff --git a/src/handler/mod.rs b/src/handler/mod.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d02c0ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/handler/mod.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+pub fn test2 () {
+    println!("HELLO WORLD!!!")
+}
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diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ff4cc16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+mod handler;
+use crate::handler::test2;
+
+pub fn test() {
+    println!("Test");
+    test2();
+}
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diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b639087
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+use std::env;
+use lib;
+
+fn main() {
+    println!(r"
+    ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
+    ██ ▄▄▄ ██▄██ ▄▀▄ █▀▄▄▀█ ██ ▄▄██ ▄▀▄ █ ▄▄█ ▄▀██▄██ ▄▄▀██ ██ █▀▄▄▀█ ▄▄█▀▄▀█ ▄▄▀█ ██ ▄▄█ ▄▄▀██ █████▄██▄ ▄█ ▄▄
+    ██▄▄▄▀▀██ ▄█ █▄█ █ ▀▀ █ ██ ▄▄██ █ █ █ ▄▄█ █ ██ ▄█ ▀▀ ██ ██ █ ▀▀ █▄▄▀█ █▀█ ▀▀ █ ██ ▄▄█ ▀▀▄██ █████ ▄██ ██ ▄▄
+    ██ ▀▀▀ █▄▄▄█▄███▄█ ████▄▄█▄▄▄██ ███ █▄▄▄█▄▄██▄▄▄█▄██▄██▄▀▀▄█ ████▄▄▄██▄██▄██▄█▄▄█▄▄▄█▄█▄▄██ ▀▀ █▄▄▄██▄██▄▄▄
+    ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
+    
+    ==> You are running CLI Version 2.0.0-alpha1
+    ");
+
+    // Parse cli arguments
+    let args: Vec<String> = env::args().collect();
+    let length = args.len();
+    println!("{length}");
+    let query = &args[ 1 ];
+    println!("{query}");
+    lib::test();
+}