> Today’s real chain: React → Electron → Chromium → Docker → Kubernetes → VM → managed DB → API gateways. Each layer adds “only 20–30%.” Compound a handful and you’re at 2–6× overhead for the same behavior. > > That's how a Calculator ends up leaking 32GB. Not because someone wanted it to—but because nobody noticed the cumulative cost until users started complaining.
MacOS calculator definitely doesn't use any of those technologies above...
The article looks LLM-written or assisted, kind of ironic the author haven't verified stuff like this in an article about quality.