This repository contains an implementation of the famous Conway's Game of Life, written in Rust. The primary purpose of this project is to serve as an exercise to learn and practice Rust.

The Game of Life is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is a zero-player game, meaning its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input during the game.

You can play the game in your browser here via WebAssembly.

The game involves a grid where each cell is either alive or dead. The state of each cell changes per turn based on simple rules involving living neighbors.

This implementation not only follows these rules but also visualizes the game board.

The project is split into two main modules:

• GameState: Manages game logic, encapsulating the core rules and game state

• View:Handles the rendering, with different implementations for various platforms in the view directory, supporting environments from desktops (with libraries like Piston) to web browsers (via WebAssembly).

• Rust

• Rust and Cargo from Rust website.
• For local server: Node.js and npm (for http-server).

Before you can run this project, you need to have Rust and Cargo (Rust's package manager) installed on your machine. You can download them from .

 git clone https://github.com/fabelium/Game-of-Life-in-Rust.git
 cd Game-of-Life-in-Rust

Execute in the project's root:

cargo run

To run the game in a web browser, you first need to compile it to WebAssembly (Wasm) and then serve it using a web server.

1. Before compiling for WebAssembly, make sure to add the target and install wasm-bindgen-cli:

   rustup target add wasm32-unknown-unknown
   cargo install wasm-bindgen-cli
   

2. Build the project:

   cargo build --target wasm32-unknown-unknown --release
   wasm-bindgen target/wasm32-unknown-unknown/release/game_of_life.wasm --out-dir ./wasm/assets --target web
   

   The first command compiles the Rust code into a WebAssembly (.wasm) file, optimized for web browser execution.

   The second command uses wasm-bindgen to generate the necessary JavaScript files for loading the .wasm file. It also copies the generated .wasm file into the ./wasm/assets folder, making it accessible from the browser:

3. Serve with a web server:

   cd wasm
   npx http-server
   

4. Open the provided URL in your browser (usually http:https://localhost:8080).

We welcome contributions, especially for code efficiency and new features.

Licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL)