Simple demo using Go. It uses a finite grid, anything that goes beyond the grid is ignored.
brew install go # (if you don't already have go installed)
go build
Alternatively, download the binary with go get (nifty!)
go get github.com/cjlint/gameoflifedemo
$(go env GOPATH)/bin/gameoflifedemo
gameoflife takes input from stdin. You can cat a given example file to see cool patterns.
cat examples/turns_into_a_loaf | ./gameoflife
cat examples/glider | ./gameoflife --maxX 50 --maxY 50
Or you can seed a grid by typing 0s and 1s directly to stdin, followed by an empty line
./gameoflife
0010010011
1001001
01010111001
10
100
10010
You can tinker with the command line arguments if you want to try a larger grid or a faster/slower interval
./gameoflife -help
There are a few unit tests but not full coverage
go test