Cline: The Open Source Code Agent — with Saoud Rizwan and Nik PashClline announces their $32m Seed+A today. In an age of nonstop VSCode forks (Kiro) and terminal agents (Warp 2.0, Charm Crush, Augment CLI), why is a free open source VSCode extension doing so well in 2025? As the AI coding wars rage on, there seems to be an unlimited demand for new entrants in this space. In January of this year, Cline launched their AI engineer extension compatible with VS Code,
