Interest in community-built mod/plugin support?

[Pedrovaptbr]

Hi Sebastian! First off, thanks for DLS and the "how computers work" series — it's what got me into digital logic.

In the README you mention hoping to add some form of mod support eventually. I'd love to help work toward that — not just custom chips, but a general plugin/mod system: custom chips with their own sim logic, UI/behaviour tweaks, and new features — mods of any kind.

As a concrete example, I already added an optional "prefer-high on wire conflict" setting to my local copy — exactly the kind of tweak that could ship as a mod instead of a source edit.

Before building anything big, I wanted to check with you, since it's an architectural change and you'll have your own vision:

Is mod/plugin support still something you'd want, and would you be open to a community contribution toward it?

My plan is to build a mod loader and a plugin API, so mods can be dropped in without editing the source. I'd start small, though — refactoring the built-in chip dispatch (the ProcessBuiltinChip switch) into a registry and adding a few clean extension points — as a foundation for that, without locking into a loading mechanism yet. But I'd rather hear your thoughts before going down a path you wouldn't want to merge.

Time isn't a problem for me, no matter how complex this gets — I'm still a student and currently on vacation, so I'm happy to put in the work over the long haul.

Thanks!