@Caldera Official From the Developer's Perspective, is Caldera Liberation or Shackles?
Introduction:
In conversations with some developer friends, everyone's attitude towards Caldera is quite interesting: on one hand, they feel it lowers the barriers to entry, while on the other hand, they worry it may constrain development freedom.
The core selling point of Caldera is that it allows developers to almost avoid reinventing the wheel from scratch. Through its framework, a dedicated Rollup can be up and running in just a few days. For small teams, this is a huge benefit: saving time, money, and manpower. Especially in a tight funding environment, who wants to spend half a year working on the underlying infrastructure?
However, from another perspective, this kind of “convenience” may also be a form of “shackles.” If there are vulnerabilities in Caldera's underlying framework, can the project team quickly fix them? If service prices increase, will application developers be forced to migrate? This means that by choosing Caldera, developers are also to some extent locked into its ecosystem.
The deeper issue is whether Caldera's ecosystem can support long-term evolution. Developers need not just startup tools, but also debugging, upgrades, security audits, and interoperability with other ecosystems. If these services are not adequate, Caldera could become a “sprint runner” but unable to support a marathon.
For developers, @Caldera Official is both liberation and risk. This contradiction determines whether it can earn genuine technical acclaim.
