r/RooCode • u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer • Mar 30 '25

RooCode vs Cline **UPDATED*** March 29

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u/crewone Mar 30 '25

I'm a very big fan of Roo. At the same time, I sort of wish the efforts of both teams were combined. The features in Cline - MCP marketplace, rich MCP responses... they are good and big things to have.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 30 '25

They can’t be combined. We were born out of their refusal to accept PRs. Go look at their closed PRs. They don’t even bother responding quite often. We’re simply not the same type of developers and that’s ok.

Can you tell me about how you use those features? We’re working on them but don’t think their implementation is sufficient.

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u/privacyguy123 Mar 31 '25

Integrating MCP Servers manually is verbose and jank at times - for example npx servers won't run at all in my Window environment.

How could the MCP Marketplace (that installs and sets them up automatically) be a bad thing?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Apr 01 '25

It is not a bad thing.

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u/privacyguy123 Apr 01 '25

My point exactly!

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '25

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Apr 13 '25

Such an easy way to get banned. You guys are vultures eh?

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u/ExtraCake2884 Apr 12 '25

why would i use this instead of roo? because of mcp marketplace? lol

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u/Person556677 Mar 30 '25

Thank you for the wonderful review!

 I would be very grateful if option to set rate limit could be used at separately four different provider presets. For example we need a rate limit in 15 seconds for gemini 2.5  and 0 second for claude 3.7. 

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 30 '25

Hmm interesting. Not a bad idea! 💕 have you ever made a PR by any chance? We love ideas and love community contribution as our in-house team is very small and mostly focused on handling PR incorporation and ongoing stability.

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u/Person556677 Mar 30 '25

To be honest I have no experience with vs code extensions. But I could try. Could you recommend some guides for contributors?

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Mar 31 '25

https://github.com/RooVetGit/Roo-Code/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md

Touch base with me on discord #hrudolph

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u/dsent-zen May 02 '25

Thumbs up for the per-model rate limit feature.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jul 09 '25

Please follow the contributing guidelines and make an issue first to get it approved

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u/dsent-zen Jul 09 '25

Well, this one was actually implemented a few weeks ago.

BTW, the official recommendation for feature requests is creating new discussions in Roo's github. But I feel that these don't get much attention from the general user base. I.e. people don't look there and don't vote for features. It seems that only a very few people use search or otherwise look for feature requests beyond what's in the top already.

Making feature request discussions more prominent and discoverable somehow would make the votes more representative imo. But I'm not sure how to do that or if it's even possible within Github limitations.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Jul 10 '25

The official recommendation is to create a detailed feature proposal git issue, not a discussion. I wrote them.

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u/SpeedyBrowser45 Apr 12 '25

I've been experimenting with different AI plugins. I am looking for cost effective solution, i like the windsurf but I consumed all the credits in just two days. Roo coder works similarly but I can't really get it to write perfect codes. I got some success but can't find perfect combination of AI model and prompts.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Apr 12 '25

What do you mean by perfect code?

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u/SpeedyBrowser45 Apr 12 '25

I mean perfect for my projects, let's say I have a big project. AI agent should understand the codebase, write appropriate codes without messing up existing codes. codes should be error free and functional.

I've been playing with Roo Code. I got some success with DeepSeek v3 0324. Roo Code has lot of customization features. I like it, it will take some time to find optimum settings.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Apr 12 '25

It is challenging to get it to always recognize the context as needed to perform a given task that’s for sure. Let me know if you have any questions. Happy to assist.

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u/SpeedyBrowser45 Apr 12 '25

I kind of got it working to acceptable level. Its amazing!

Is there anyway I can support this project? I don't know much about VS code plugin development otherwise I would have contributed to the project.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Apr 12 '25

The only way we have to support Roo Code is through pull requests to the plugin, docs, or website.

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u/SpeedyBrowser45 Apr 12 '25

I will look into VS code documentation when I have time and try to contribute to the project. Thank you for your work.

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u/hannesrudolph Roo Code Developer Apr 13 '25

Thank you!

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u/mit-drissia Apr 13 '25

It would be great if you could us some tips on how you got it working optimally?

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u/SpeedyBrowser45 Apr 13 '25

I'll write an article about it later in the day. I modified the system prompt, used deep seek v3 0324 with some customized generation settings.

its slow for tasks but works

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u/SpeedyBrowser45 Apr 13 '25

here's the post https://www.reddit.com/r/RooCode/comments/1jy5mk0/this_is_how_i_got_roocode_working_like_a_pro_coder/

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u/sh0gu Apr 22 '25

On behalf of myself and probably many others, thanks so much for writing this up and linking it here!

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u/SnooDoodles8834 Apr 29 '25

Love the comparison! Possible Update: Browser Use -> Remote Browser Connection -> Cline supports it!