Conway´s Game of Life is an interesting game based on a cellular automaton. The rules are easy, but the dynamics are complex. After a short introduction we want to program the Game of Life in Java and Python. There are several possibilities: Java Desktop-App (with Swing), Java Webapp (with Vaadin), Python Desktop-App, Python Webapp (with Django or Flask). Then we want to compare the implementations regarding time needed, lines of code, programming concepts used, beauty of the source code and ease of programming.