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Their free book "Conway’s Game of Life: Mathematics and Construction" is a great starting point - https://conwaylife.com/book/conway_life_book.pdf https://conwa

• jancurn 11mo ago
  You sent me down a rabbit hole: https://esolangs.org/wiki/APGsembly https://esolangs.org/wiki/APGsembly is mentioned in the book
  • falcor84 11mo ago
    And for a related rabbit hole where people actually went all the to the bottom, there's of course the full implementation of Tetris in GoL which was nerd-sniped by a CodeGolf challenge https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-working-game-of-tetris-in-conways-game-of-life https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/11880/build-a-w...
    • idiotsecant 11mo ago
      Sometimes you see something that makes you wonder how it is that you get to exist in the same world as people with the drive and intelligence to do truly awesome ( in the original sense) thing like this. I am proud of myself when the compiler works on the first try.
      • taneq 11mo ago
        I think it's awesome that they can do this amazing fun esoteric stuff, but at the same time a small part of me thinks maybe they need to be doing something more meaningful in the real world.
        • kitku 11mo ago
          This small part is what makes broken people. Whoever reads this, go have fun! :)
          • taneq 11mo ago
            You know what? I think I will.
        • bibimsz 11mo ago
          the only thing that's meaningful is having fun, everything else is a waste of time
        • idiotsecant 11mo ago
          I wonder, what would that be, that thing that is more meaningful? I would make the case that, zoomed out far enough, nothing at all is meaningful, so you might as well make beautiful things, and this is a delightfully beautiful thing.