https://graemenewlands.com/tags/webassembly/Recent content in WebAssembly on Graeme NewlandsHugoen-usThu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0700https://graemenewlands.com/posts/conways-game-of-life-in-ops5/Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0700https://graemenewlands.com/posts/conways-game-of-life-in-ops5/<blockquote> <p><strong>Disclaimer</strong>: Generated by AI, Gemini 3.8 through Antigravity</p> </blockquote> <hr> <p>Cellular automata like John Conway&rsquo;s <strong>Game of Life</strong> are almost universally taught and implemented imperatively: allocate a two-dimensional grid array, iterate over every row and column with nested <code>for</code> loops, count the 8 Moore neighbors, and write the next state to a backbuffer.</p> <p>Following my recent work building <a href="https://github.com/graemenewlands/ops5"><strong><code>ops5</code> in Go</strong></a> (and the deep dive in <a href="https://graemenewlands.com/posts/building-ops5-in-go/"><em>Building OPS5 in Go: Implementing the Rete Algorithm from Scratch</em></a>), I wanted to put the engine through its paces with something visually tangible, reactive, and non-trivial:</p>