langton, a blazingly fast CLI langton's ant stimulator written in c++

Installation (unix-like systems)

git clone https://github.com/lomnom/langton
cd langton
git clone https://github.com/lomnom/nncurses
g++ -std=c++2a -O3 langton.cpp -o langton
sudo cp langton /usr/local/bin/langton
cd ..
rm -rf langton

Uninstallation (unix-like systems)

rm /usr/local/bin/langton

Usage

run langton's ant by providing rules as arguments!

Running

langton RRLLLRLLLRRR
langton LRRRRRLLR

Controlling

q: quit
w,a,s,d: move
f: move twice as slowly
g: move twice as fast
c: step the ant
e: step half as much
r: step twice as much

Screenshot

16 million steps of LRRRRRLLR stimulated in under 3 seconds.
RRLLLRLLLRRR

TODO

Find a way to use less memory, memory usage after 67 million steps of RRLLLRLLLRRR is 324 mb.
Find a way to step faster.
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