Well you would normally use hammers and nails for woodworking but you wouldn't be able to use woodworking to make hammers and nails... But I guess with a text e

Well you would normally use hammers and nails for woodworking but you wouldn't be able to use woodworking to make hammers and nails... But I guess with a text editor it's a weird recursive thing where the programming tool is itself a programming project. I think people just do it for fun and because they can. You'll probably never make something you can productionize but maybe you will learn some cool things along the way.