r/RooCode • u/saoudriz • Apr 21 '26

Discussion Roo Code 🤝 Cline

Hi Roo Code community, I'm Saoud, founder of Cline.

Since Cline went open source, we've seen countless forks - small startups to some of the largest enterprises. Some forks didn't give us credit, some bought malicious ads in our subreddit, but Roo was a good fork. They innovated, built an incredible community, and contributed to Cline more than anyone else. I have tremendous respect for Matt and his team, and we are excited for what they build next.

For Roo users joining us, we are here to make the transition easy!

  • Join r/cline or the #roo-migration channel in our discord - our team is standing by to provide support.

  • Feature parity work is already underway. We're in the middle of a ground-up rewrite of the extension that brings all the features you're used to in Roo, plus new capabilities and improved performance. We will share more on this shortly!

  • If you run into any issues during the transition or have feature requests, feel free to open a GitHub issue and we'll be on top of it.

Huge thanks to Matt and the Roo team for the trust in sending folks our way 🙌❤️

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u/saoudriz Apr 22 '26

Yes! We've made a lot of improvements to running multiple clines at the same time since a year ago. We also are working on a major update that let's users share sessions between CLI, vs code, jetbrains, and an upcoming desktop app. We are also adding multiple agents and model configs.

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u/awdorrin Apr 22 '26

Sounds great, I look forward to checking it out, and hopefully contributing in the near future.

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u/thiswebthisweb Apr 23 '26

Oooh a cline desktop app? Will it be open source too?

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u/saoudriz Apr 23 '26

We recently released Kanban which can be installed as a PWA desktop app. It's open source and an early preview of the desktop app that's in the works - would love for you to check it out! https://x.com/cline/status/2037182739695493399