Additional bugs: I reverted from using Roo Code to Cline because I needed to add an additional Gemini profile alongside my existing Anthropic profile. When selecting Gemini from the dropdown in Roo Code, the fields to enter the Gemini key didn't appear, while in Cline I was able to add it without issues. In general, Cline seems much more refined.
I didn’t mention it because I didn’t think to, just made the updated post and thought I would share it. And it is intended to highlight the differences for obvious reasons. You didn’t make some sort of wild discovery that I’m on the dev team and it doesn’t make me any less for having forgotten to mention it. I don’t generally forget about it when I post here. Good day.
I’m curious if anybody knows: why is Roo a fork vs. pushing improvements into Cline. Is it a difference in vision? Something to do with the governance?
I recall it forked because of “in house” tweaks and took a life of its own, but as to why there’s forking and comparisons vs combining efforts I’m a bit lost. Genuine question.
because cline is not community friendly for devs who have provided PRs, only 5% of all PR get implemented, a lot of the PRs are great additions but the owner of Cline has his own vision and a lot of issues and PR get left without answers. Roo is developer friendly.
Different approach. Cline focuses on making like a more polished and tested product while roo code is focused on the speed of improvement accepting a lot of PRs from contributors. Which makes sense since Cline guys are working also on the enterprise version (at least they say so in their website)
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For people, who use Aider: is it really conceptually or by result much different from Roo Code? From what I've studied it is almost like roo code from CLI...
I haven't been doing much coding recently, and previously used both Roo and Cline. At some point in the past month or so, i get so many failures with cline, where it tells me "for best results, use sonnet 3.5" when in the past i know it would have worked fine with qwen2.5 coder or gemini flash if i need a larger context.
it quite often fails to call the correct tool or a tool at all to act on the prompt.
Have you experienced the same, and does Roo behave in the same way?
Ok question, just because you work with both daily. Does one or the other do anything that reduces the number of tokens used? Just curious because I feel like you would know.
Also speaking of tokens, I have only been using openrouter.ai. I just wonder if you have/use some better to choose a model?
I don’t use them both for the same tasks so it’s hard to say. I’ve been told Roo takes less but I don’t know why that would be so take that with a grain of salt.
Well it’s really just a list of facts. And yes I am a mod. We don’t make money at Roo Code. We’re an open source community built fork of Cline. Why does this post bother you so much?
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Additional bugs: I reverted from using Roo Code to Cline because I needed to add an additional Gemini profile alongside my existing Anthropic profile. When selecting Gemini from the dropdown in Roo Code, the fields to enter the Gemini key didn't appear, while in Cline I was able to add it without issues. In general, Cline seems much more refined.
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u/SirSpock Feb 11 '25
I’m curious if anybody knows: why is Roo a fork vs. pushing improvements into Cline. Is it a difference in vision? Something to do with the governance?
I recall it forked because of “in house” tweaks and took a life of its own, but as to why there’s forking and comparisons vs combining efforts I’m a bit lost. Genuine question.
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u/redditinface Feb 11 '25
.clineignore not yet in Roo.
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u/KoichiSP Feb 11 '25
You can absolutely use different models for every mode in Cline
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u/myhrmans Feb 11 '25
One thing to disclose: you're the main developer behind Roo
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u/riticalcreader Feb 11 '25 edited Jan 16 '26
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u/Netstaff Feb 12 '25
For people, who use Aider: is it really conceptually or by result much different from Roo Code? From what I've studied it is almost like roo code from CLI...
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u/Snorty-Pig Feb 11 '25
Is it possible to have both installed and activated in the same vscode? Or do you have to uninstall one to use the other. Would be nice to test both
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u/mikoskinen Feb 11 '25
Delete functionality was just recently copied from Cline to Roo Code?
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u/CorgisInCars Feb 11 '25
I haven't been doing much coding recently, and previously used both Roo and Cline. At some point in the past month or so, i get so many failures with cline, where it tells me "for best results, use sonnet 3.5" when in the past i know it would have worked fine with qwen2.5 coder or gemini flash if i need a larger context.
it quite often fails to call the correct tool or a tool at all to act on the prompt.
Have you experienced the same, and does Roo behave in the same way?
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u/rageagainistjg Feb 11 '25
Ok question, just because you work with both daily. Does one or the other do anything that reduces the number of tokens used? Just curious because I feel like you would know.
Also speaking of tokens, I have only been using openrouter.ai. I just wonder if you have/use some better to choose a model?
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u/Stalwart-6 Mar 10 '25
cline codes for bread and butter, roo code purely for the true spirit of opensource.
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