Roo Code
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
6recommend
2warn against
Dec 9, 2025first mention
Oct 3, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I personally liked RooCode more, but that got retired”
“liked their UI/UX a lot too”
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“I personally liked RooCode more than both the Cline and KiloCode”
“Roo was a bit better because it offered more customisation”
“works great with Roo Code for local development”
Caveats and dissent
“RooCode essentially dumped their VSC plugins and went all in on the cloud”
“the maintainer has reported some bans”
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“KiloCode/RooCode/Cline are unable to give a model enough helpful instructions”
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Also written as RooCode. Data: roo-code.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 19
“RooCode essentially dumped their VSC plugins and went all in on the cloud”
“I personally liked RooCode more, but that got retired”
“liked their UI/UX a lot too”
“I personally liked RooCode more than both the Cline and KiloCode”
“Roo was a bit better because it offered more customisation”
“sometimes, I use the Roo Code plugin for VS Code.”
“use roo code/cline mostly”
“At home I use roo code, at work kiro.”
Oh those ghastly model names. https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/version
Some of NVIDIA's models also tend to have interesting architectures. For example, usage of the MAMBA architecture instead of purely transformers: https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/inside-nvidia-nemotron-3-techniques-tools-and-data-that-make-it-efficient-and-accurate/
“works great with Roo Code for local development”
“RooCode is a Free and Open Source VS Code AI Coding extension”
“RooCode is a Free and Open Source VS Code AI Coding extension.”
“I have that working via Roo Code in VS code”
“I really like doing this, be it with OpenCode or Copilot or Cline/RooCode/KiloCode”
“the maintainer has reported some bans”
“KiloCode/RooCode/Cline in VSC which are nice”
“I tried it in RooCline”
“KiloCode/RooCode/Cline are unable to give a model enough helpful instructions”