Game of life but it's sort of in Lua and Love2d
The actual core game of life is in LuaLifeC which provides massive performance gains. Lua is fast, sure, but not as fast as C.
The project runs on Love2D.
Simply build LuaLifeC and place the library in the local folder of the cloned repo so that this program can find it, then run love . to run the demo mode.
I was going to make a command line argument interface to run specific profiles but never got around to it.