go-life

go-life

This project aims to implement a simple Conway's Game of Life sim in Golang. The current implementation simply prints the sim in real time to the terminal until the user kills the process.

Additional features such as saving runs as gifs, saving/loading initial world states, and concurrency to allow for larger worlds to run with a decent render time.

Building

In order to build this, you need Go 1.17+ and Make installed.

From the project root, run

make bin

Running

Once built, run the binary with

./bin/go-life

The simulation will begin running, printing to the terminal session used to launch it. You may need to resize the terminal session to fit the size of the world.

To stop the simulation, simply kill the process using Ctrl+X or killing in the task manager.