the short spurts of a cam inside viacad from way back along with the advent of ai everywhere led me back to wanting this. a way to have have third party plug-ins or a way to call and use vcp within a different program. not for a full cam, I would leave that to the professionals like bobcam, smart, ez, etc but for say a tube laser or dstv for structurals.
or thermal/coping of ship shapes like bulb flats.
or fea.

the options are endless.

exactly! no need for punch to have fea, cam (this is a dark dark big rabbit hole to deploy), electrical sim, odd file conversion (dstv for structural steel is first or second on my list, fea is the other one), and all sorts of other goodies the masses can think of. even having a store if punch wants a cut from third party stuff. mostly I think it just adds to the power of the viacad. also would allow for viand to be semi-headless in other software, like a machine controller or cam, or erp.