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I'd like to see a community-driven port of Sublime Text to Rust, with a basic ST3 like cross-platform UI, and offering a base set of UI primitives (buttons, panels, dropdown, inline styled annotations, etc) available for plugins, and first class support for JS plugins/extensions.

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Doesn't port imply having access to the original sourcecode?

There are many unrelated editors that have cloned aspects of Sublime to varying degrees in the 2010s.

Well, cleanroom re-implementation if you prefer.

Really not worth doing there don't appear to be any unique aspects worth copying and its closed source.

It's not about having unique aspects. The Plan 9 editor is unique -- and nobody cares for it.

It's about having useful aspects. And ST3 is the best example we have of a native, fast, modern, cross platform, plugin-able editor.

Apart from emacs of course. (depending on what you mean by modern...)

xi-editor looks like the best solution for me.

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