I've always had hands-free/voice programming in the back of my mind. I love the build software and code, and I'd hate to lose that ability due to blindness or lack of dexterity.

But I wouldn't consider this (or any other) proprietary software on the face of it - this feels like the sort of area where open source is tablestakes to me. If only due to NixOS lol.

Feel free to correct me if I misunderstood. I couldn't find the source from the website, and the github seems to be just for issue tracking?

Sharing my own experience because this helped me through a very tough time in life.

I used this for about 2 years when I couldn't use my hands much to do all my course work in my cs degree.

I coded, dictated math and even controlled my mouse through the eye tracker integration. The community around talon is great and development speed is very fast. The speed of improvement is also rapid, it was astounding how accurately I could dictate code, and the lead developer aegis would only push out more improvements to increase accuracy. He will also routinely push out niche features for people with very specific accessibility needs.

The software is free but there is an option to pay that gets you into some beta release channels. I'd encourage anyone who cares to contribute to the development costs.