In general, the benefit of a UI would be that you can draw things you can't draw when constrained to a grid of characters, and you can have interactivity you couldn't otherwise have. It would be more like VS Code or Zed but with the Helix editing model underneath.

(Worth noting one of the maintainers said only a couple months ago: "this is really far away right now as helix needs large architectural changes before writing a GUI is even feasible/a good idea."[1])

[1]: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/issues/39#issuecomment...