My recreation of Conway`s Game of Life in Golang

Features:

• Configurable grid size, tick speed and starting live cells percentage
• Looped-borders grid
• Even cells and pretty borders ✨
• Iterations and number of living cells counters

Running

1. Download binary from release suitable for your system.

2. Run binary as usual, optionally with flags:

   Linux:

   ./life -width 50 -height 50

   Windows:

   life.exe -width 60 -start-live 75

You can view all command line options running binary with --help flag.

Warning: if grid width is exceeding terminal size, then grid view starts overlapping with itself and looks ugly. If height is higher than terminal itself, then in-place rendering breaks down and each iteration starts to spam in terminal.

References

Some of ideas, like using bool slice for grid, certain characters for grid border and cells, i noticed from pinpox`s implementation of Game of Life (until now i didnt realize our repos even named the same). But all functionality and logic(aside from 4 basic rules of game, obviously) i did by myself, honestly!