Apparently that ship has sailed. Claude Code and Gemini CLI requires Node.js installation, and Gemini README reads as if npm is a tool that everybody knows and has already installed.

https://www.anthropic.com/claude-code

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli

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dboon 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Opencode is a great model agnostic alternative which does not require a separate runtime

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yunohn 3 days ago | parent [-]

Opencode uses TS and Golang, it definitely needs a runtime for the TS part. CPU usage hovers around 100% for me on an MBP M3 Max.

	▲	dboon 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I meant that it’s bundled with the binary such that you don’t need to make sure some random version of eg Node is available

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Sharlin 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That's terrible, but at the very least there's the tiny justification that those are web API clients rather than standalone/local tools.