https://github.com/theclapp/go-life
Conway's Game of Life in Go
https://github.com/theclapp/go-life
conway-game gio go imgui life
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Conway's Game of Life in Go
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/theclapp/go-life
- Owner: theclapp
- Created: 2012-09-13T04:01:19.000Z (almost 14 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-08-14T16:06:21.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-25T03:12:22.966Z (over 1 year ago)
- Topics: conway-game, gio, go, imgui, life
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage:
- Size: 3.38 MB
- Stars: 13
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 1
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# go-life
Conway's Game of Life in Go, cross-platform
Uses [Gio](https://git.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio) by [@EliasNaur](https://github.com/eliasnaur).
## To build
For the desktop app, Go 1.12 is fine.
To build the web version (which you don't have to do if you only want to run it), you'll need 1.13 / go tip. (Explaining "go tip" is beyond the scope of this readme, sorry.)
Again: the www/ directory in the repo is ready to run, no need to (re)build it. **So if you just want to try it**, you don't need "go tip".
### Desktop
```bash
% export GO111MODULE=on
% go run life.go
```
### Browser:
#### Locally
```bash
% go get github.com/shurcooL/goexec
% goexec 'http.ListenAndServe(":8080", http.FileServer(http.Dir("www")))'
```
Browse to http://localhost:8080.
#### From Github
Browse to http://theclapp.github.io/go-life/www/.
May take a few moments to download on your first visit; ~4 mb download (~1 mb on the wire).
(May not work in Chrome (see [#1](https://github.com/theclapp/go-life/issues/1)) though it does for me. If not, try a different browser.)
## Hotkeys
These work in the desktop app and in the browser.
* `q` to quit (in the browser this just halts execution)
* `r` to restart the universe with random cells
* `-` (minus key) to reduce the scale (zoom out)
* `+` to increase the scale (zoom in) (`=` also works)
* `<` or `,` to slow down the generations
* `>` or `.` to speed them up
* `p` pause
* `c` continue
You can also click-and-drag or scroll around.
You can't enter or save patterns yet.
## Screenshots
### macOS
### Chrome
