Forget About AI Costs: Google Just Changed The Game With Open-Source Gemini CLI That Will Be Free For Most Developers
Google, June 25,2025
For power users and many developers, the command line is the foundational interface for controlling a system and its applications.
Also sometimes referred to as a terminal, the command line interface (CLI) is how users issue commands and build applications as an alternative, or as a complement, to an integrated developer environment (IDE) tool. While it might seem almost anachronistic that a text-only interface accessible with a keyboard (CLI doesn't even use a mouse) can be modern, it remains a mainstay of developers around the world. In the modern era of generative AI, it's becoming more powerful too.