The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):

die horribly

    The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the
   preferred emphatic form of die.  "The converter choked on an
   FF in its input and died horribly".

   [Jargon File]

   (1996-05-28)


The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

die horribly
 v.

    The software equivalent of crash and burn, and the preferred emphatic
    form of die. “The converter choked on an FF in its input and died
    horribly”.