HACKER Q&A
📣 amichail

If you can program computers in the afterlife, would you?


What apps/games/tools would you build? How long would you spend building an app?


  👤 mindcrime Accepted Answer ✓
I'm thinking about converting to being Amish to escape computers in the current life. The last thing I want is to spend the afterlife messing with computers. I've had my fill of mismatched libraries, opaque error messages, arcane compiler output, bizarre Maven problems, grotesque Gradle garbage, complex C++ complaints, mundane Make malfeasance, befuddling Macintoshes, loopy Linux, and Windows in general.

Hard pass from me.


👤 Idiot_in_Vain
Depends on what other options are available in "the afterlife". Program or burn in hell - sure I can do a bit of programming. Program or spend time on the beach in good company - I'll have to pass on the programming thing.

👤 amts
You are making a typical overgeneralisation (or lack of consciousness) error thinking about "afterlife" as if it were any other object you're used to think of, thus making half of the question ill-formulated.

👤 RMWildly
I suppose if I have eternity to play with it's hard to rule out.