https://github.com/samtay/conway

A terminal interface for Conway's Game of Life
https://github.com/samtay/conway

brick conway grid haskell terminal-app vty

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A terminal interface for Conway's Game of Life

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/samtay/conway
• Owner: samtay
• License: bsd-3-clause
• Created: 2017-03-09T04:48:24.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-04-17T03:43:58.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-01T12:04:06.743Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: brick, conway, grid, haskell, terminal-app, vty
• Language: Haskell
• Homepage:
• Size: 133 KB
• Stars: 61
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# conway [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/samtay/conway.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/samtay/conway)

A terminal interface for playing Conway's Game of Life

![terminal-gif](./docs/img/example.gif)

This is just a pet project that I thought would be a good exercise in Haskell.

The [Game of Life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway's_Game_of_Life) is a cellular automaton

with simple rules but emergent complexity - a quintessential complex system.

The frontend leverages [brick](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/brick)

while the backend is supported by custom zipper types implementing comonads.

This codebase comes with a complementary article about the [performance benefits of comonads](https://samtay.github.io/posts/comonadic-game-of-life.html).

### installation

First [get stack](https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/README/#how-to-install). Then

```shell

$ git clone https://github.com/samtay/conway.git

$ cd conway

$ stack build

# execute via stack

$ stack exec life

# alternatively, copy executable to ~/.local/bin

$ stack install life

$ life

```