Why is generation of the BOM such a nightmare?

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My BOM tool (pmkb)

hello, i just registered at the forum i used kibom until recently i’m allergic to SNEK (pythonz), i don’t speak HTML nor javascript nor regex nor spreadsheet, nor git i often have to order components for multiple projects at once, which have common parts, or slightly different variations (same values with different packages), and this turns into a horror for me so i made a tool that reads the eeschema bom.xml and can then output a fancy BOM here’s how it can look like [image] one of the …