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by russell 6342 days ago
I would echo that advice. I have written a commercial editor/word processor. It's fun, but involves man years of work to get a good product. My advice is to find a good open source editor that you like and contribute to it. Someone mention scite. I looked into it years ago as a language front end and I liked it.

A good editor can be a good user interface to all kinds of interesting things, like language and compiler development.