This project is still a work-in-progress.
For background information regarding the Game of Life, see the Conway's Game of Life Wikipedia page.
The purpose of this project is to demonstrate C++20's enhanced template metaprogramming support, specifically this project makes extensive usage of NTTPs (non-type template parameters) of the literal class type. The way I approached programming in this project was almost purely functional and, as a result, the syntax is reminiscent of Haskell. In fact, this implementation is very similar to a Haskell implementation I did in the past.
In the process of creating this demo, I had to make a conscious effort to avoid using constexpr functions, as everything could have easily been done in that fashion instead.
A secondary purpose of this project was for me to practice my TDD (test driven development) skills.
The tests can be found in GameOfLife.cpp.
- CMake 3.20+
- MSVC 19.33.31517+
- vcpkg 2022-05-05-67e17c1782801cf481be9ac0b3765dff3e4bdeb8+
- Catch2 3.0.1#1+ installed
This project was tested on Windows 11 with Visual Studio 2022 17.3.0 Preview 2.0. The code should compile with any C++20 standard-compliant compiler.
You can build the project with CMake by using the following commands from the root directory:
cmake -S . -B build -D CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=$env:VCPKG_ROOT/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake
cmake --build buildAt the moment, the project only produces a test executable. The test executable is named "GameOfLife" and it simply runs the Catch2 test cases.