Conway's Game of Life

A very simple implementation of Conway's Game of life in the terminal using Rust.

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It can most certainly be improved by:

• Making a struct for cells and then an enum to track their state or,

• by implementing opengl rendering or using a graphics framework for more advanced visual,

• separating code into modules,

• a million other ways.

Even though how it is now is very crude and full of beginner mistakes, this was a project I started not even half way into the Rust book and with no experience with compiled languages.

Built using:

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• Std lib
• Random crate (could be replaced with custom implementation, used once)

Usage:

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• Clone and cargo run
• Change grid size if desired at line 160:

let mut grid: Grid = Grid::new(30);

• Change the characters used for the dead and alive on lines 22 and 23

Demo:

Known bugs:

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• Using the same chars for both dead and alive state doesn't work due to the current implementation.