If you want to contribute with code, player and editor are written in C++, most player code is using the SDL library and editor the wxWidgets library (is a GUI library like QT). The first place to get info about how works is the documentation wiki, which explains more details.
Adding scripting capabilities is not planned yet and there is still not any draft or solid proposal about it. Some talks in easyrpg IRC chat channel said something about create copy-pasteable simple commands for current event commands, like: show message “text” or something similar.