While they do not leak memory like crazy, they hog a lot and people accept it.
They do not leak memory at all. Using a lot of memory is not the same as leaking memory. And from a practical perspective, it doesn’t really matter if a calculator app on iOS uses a gigabyte or three of RAM, as the amount of multi-tasking a user can do on a phone is severely limited, and the operating system kills background apps when it needs to reclaim memory for the foreground.
The bigger problem are many “smol” programs are written without performance in mind at all
Do you have specific examples of this? The iOS calculator sucks, but it does not have performance problems. People who think every piece of software needs to be hyper-optimized are either unemployed (or should be) as they don’t get any work done, or they just don’t practice what they preach. IME, it’s usually beginners/novices who discovered what a “native” language is, like C++ or Rust, and are going through a phase. None of those people know how to actually optimize a program, haven’t even heard of Compiler Explorer, think “MESI” is a soccer player, and probably know more about TUI frameworks than profiling ones.
They do not leak memory at all. Using a lot of memory is not the same as leaking memory. And from a practical perspective, it doesn’t really matter if a calculator app on iOS uses a gigabyte or three of RAM, as the amount of multi-tasking a user can do on a phone is severely limited, and the operating system kills background apps when it needs to reclaim memory for the foreground.
Do you have specific examples of this? The iOS calculator sucks, but it does not have performance problems. People who think every piece of software needs to be hyper-optimized are either unemployed (or should be) as they don’t get any work done, or they just don’t practice what they preach. IME, it’s usually beginners/novices who discovered what a “native” language is, like C++ or Rust, and are going through a phase. None of those people know how to actually optimize a program, haven’t even heard of Compiler Explorer, think “MESI” is a soccer player, and probably know more about TUI frameworks than profiling ones.