https://github.com/marcusbuffett/game-of-life

Conway's Game of Life written in Haskell, using ncurses
https://github.com/marcusbuffett/game-of-life

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Conway's Game of Life written in Haskell, using ncurses

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/marcusbuffett/game-of-life
• Owner: marcusbuffett
• Created: 2015-06-30T20:30:31.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-10-24T20:51:17.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-09-28T04:49:18.037Z (4 months ago)
• Language: Haskell
• Size: 16.6 KB
• Stars: 4
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Game of Life with ncurses

This is an implementation of Conway's Game of Life written in Haskell, using ncurses for display.

[![asciicast](https://asciinema.org/a/6btsatbsu46jx2c0t92xtb8fg.png)](https://asciinema.org/a/6btsatbsu46jx2c0t92xtb8fg)

# Installation

  Installing from Hackage requires a working cabal installation (or stack):

  ```bash

  cabal update 

  cabal install game-of-life

  game-of-life # Make sure ~/.cabal/bin is in your path

  ```

# Running / Testing

First, install stack. `curl -sSL https://get.haskellstack.org/ | sh` will work on most Unix systems, otherwise checkout https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/README/ . If you haven't run other Haskell projects on your system, the first time you try to build the project it may say you have to run `stack setup`; do so.

Note that you'll need the ncurses header files on your system. OS X should have these installed by default. Some Linux distros won't, running `sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev` (replace apt-get with package manager of choice) should fix any issues.

Running:

```bash

stack build && stack exec game-of-life

```

Testing:

```bash

stack build && stack test

```

Installing:

```bash

stack build && stack install .

```

# Notes

- Currently doesn't handle resizing the shell during execution

- The screen doesn't update fast enough sometimes, causing tearing / lag / unresponsiveness. Seems to have more to do with ncurses / the shell than the speed of the simulation

- Some linux distros cause the program to crash (and mess up the user's shell since the ncurses cleanup commands don't run)