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Java Edition's and Bedrock Edition's protocols are different, but plugins and server-mods exists that allow both java clients and bedrock clients to connect to a same server and play together. For example, https://geysermc.org/ seems to do that (disclaimer, haven't tested it myself).
Yet MineTest exists, which was the world generation rewritten from the ground up and made open source. People can write their own games to go on top of this, and a small team of peeps has basically recreated Minecraft 1-to-1 in MineTest, called MineClone. So probably not as big a task as you perhaps might think.