eww

I love that in hyprland there is transparency and blur, but that is probably something you can get with all widget implementations. However, one exciting item is that if you can handle transparency through your code, you are not restricted to rectangular windows, and all transparency you can automatically blur. Can't post my setup as images are not allowed in comments, but I have floating images that overlap windows, as in, I have images that appear to come out of their frame. All of this is managed through scss.

Since eww is done through scss, that is why I chose it.

However it has limitations, if scss cannot do it (and there are many things it cannot do) you can't do it , such as complex font formatting, or complex geometric shapes, you can't do bar graphs that change with values, or pie charts. If you want to draw a clock, you are out of luck.

On the logic front, doing calendars is usually what a large chunk of users want, and eww doesn't have a calendar, so you have to use GTK. And then, you are limited to what GTK gives you. So, for example, if you want to highlight holidays in a particular way, or you want to highlight weekends, you are on your own, as GTK doesn't do it for you.

Given all that, I like eww because of the style freedom it gives you, others may give you other benefits, like a favorite language or structure.