There's a guy working on a QML frontend for kak: https://github.com/doppioandante/kakoune-qml https://github.com/doppioandante/kakoune-qml Furthermore, Kakoune

There's a guy working on a QML frontend for kak: https://github.com/doppioandante/kakoune-qml https://github.com/doppioandante/kakoune-qml Furthermore, Kakoune has a JSON-RPC user interface option that new UIs could be built around: https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/7482d117cc85523e840dff595134dcb9cdc62207/doc/json_ui.asciidoc https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/blob/7482d117cc85523e840dff... So it could happen if you wanted it bad enough!