My girlfriend told me to implement Game of Life as a first rust project, so here we are.

I had only read chapters 1-6 of The Book and finished 40/94 rustlings when I started, and in hindsight I should have probably started with something that didn't require multi-threading and saved this for my second project after finishing chapter 12 or so.

When I first started implementing the second thread to handle inputs I was wrapping the grid in a mutex+Arc to share it between the threads. I really hated that design because it forced the threads to constantly sync and the code just seemed so unnecessarily complex. I was happy to find out about channels which allowed for this much simpler and more efficient design where the threads can subscribe to changes asynchronously instead.