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Looking at Cline, wondering what the real selling points for Roo Code are. Any chance you can say what exactly made you go with Roo Code instead of Cline?


Cline has two modes (Plan and Act) which work pretty well but Roo Code has 5 modes by default. (Code, Ask, Architect, Orchestrator, Debug) and it's designed so that users can add custom modes. e.g. I added a Code (simple) mode with instructions about the scale/complexity of tasks it can handle or decide to pass it to Code for a better model. I also changed the Architect mode to evaluate whether to redirect the user to Code or Code (simple) after generating a plan.

Roo Code just has a lot more config exposed to the user which I really appreciate. When I was using Cline I would run into minor irritating quirks that I wished I can change but couldn't vs. Roo where the odds are pretty good there are some knobs you could turn to modify that part of your workflow.




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