[DylanSp]

I'm trying to think of how you could simulate the non-instantaneous/clocked aspect of it in code without using an HDL, so you could write a more accurate simulator in a familiar language. I'm thinking you'd want each gate to store its value on the current clock tick, then you'd have a RunTick() function or something which uses the previous values to calculate the new values on the current tick for everything, then stores those new values. I'm not sure how that'd work for an SR latch, a gated SR latch, or a D flip-flop, if you wanted to model those at a gate level; would you have to model those as primitives?

EDIT: After a bit of thinking and bouncing ideas off of ChatGPT, one approach might be to have an SR latch that gets initialized to some arbitrary valid output, which can then use that starting output to calculate future states. From there, you could build up more complicated elements.