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That list is an invaluable resource, but it's huge and a bit daunting.
If you're interested but not sure which project to start with, I recommend looking at NetNewsWire[1]. It's a very nice codebase with experienced Mac and iOS developers on the team. It's cross platform (iOS, macOS, ipadOS), uses the latest technologies, and has speed and stability as design priorities.
It's the opposite of an Electron wrapper around a web app.
I use this as well, source on GitHub:
If you're on iOS/macOS, the new, open-source NetNewsWire[0] supports adding your whole follow feed, individual user feeds, mentions, and searches on specific terms.
NetNewsWire for macOS/iOS[0]. It was the best RSS reader for Mac OS X in the far past and they have now revived it and made it open source. I particularly like that you can sync feeds via iCloud or self-hosted instead of an external service.
The source code for NetNewsWire might be a useful starting point: https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire
I recently got back into RSS and have been using (free) NetNewsWire on macOS/AppStore (https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire).
Though RSS clients in 2020 really need to be scraping the origin website. 50% of my feeds are just one-liner blurbs.
RSS clients that just do RSS feel anachronistic. I've been browsing some other solutions, but the modern client really should be a hub that can turn any website into a feed.
Someone linked Fraidycat which is on the right path, objective-wise.