I'm looking into learning stenography as a part of a school project, and my setup also consists of a Planck keyboard and the wayland graphical environment. As far as I understand, this project is my best shot at getting started, but since I'm new to it all, I don't understand the caveats you have listed. Are they trivial enough to work around, or will my learning experience suffer from them?

Also, I'm having problems installing wayplover with cargo install wayplover (it fails when compiling bitvec, for some reason), so I'm currently working on a nix flake for the project. I can submit a PR with this if you are interested.

Running cargo install wayplover results in the following error.

error: failed to run custom build command for `speech-dispatcher-sys v0.5.2`

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `/tmp/cargo-installLNpJgA/release/build/speech-dispatcher-sys-c946d16364ca47ee/build-script-build` (exit status: 101)
  --- stdout
  cargo:rustc-link-lib=speechd

  --- stderr
  wrapper.h:1:10: fatal error: 'speech-dispatcher/libspeechd.h' file not found
  thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: ClangDiagnostic("wrapper.h:1:10: fatal error: 'speech-dispatcher/libspeechd.h' file not found\n")', /home/matteo/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/speech-dispatcher-sys-0.5.2/build.rs:22:10
  note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
error: failed to compile `wayplover v0.1.2`, intermediate artifacts can be found at `/tmp/cargo-installLNpJgA`

Add basic flake (and also direnv) support. This will enable easier integration into nixos configurations, and allow for reproducible builds.

Note that I had to add Cargo.lock to the repo, which is needed to ensure reproducibility. Also note that you need to enable flakes for nix to work with this. And lastly, I personally like using direnv with flake support, to automatically load the development shell when entering the project.

I couldn't find a license and was wondering if this was intentional or not.

If not, one option is to use GPLv2 like Plover does.

Without a license, it really can't be considered open source, and I find that a shame.

Apologizes if I overlooked something or that was the intended effect.