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The calculator leaked 32GB of RAM, because the system has 32GB of RAM. Memory leaks are uncontrollable and expand to take the space they're given, if you had 16MB of RAM in the system then that's all it'd be able to take before crashing.
Abstractions can be super powerful, but you need an understanding of why you're using the abstraction vs. what it's abstracting. It feels like a lot of them are being used simply to check off a list of buzzwords.