I think It can be for coders too as it supports c#, javascript and boo. This is something I really like about it. Sure for you who already have 3dgs commercial or professional version it makes no sense to break with it during your current projects. I felt to give a look into it and I like what I've seen so far and it's really a nice workflow. design -> create-> code (or not ) and play it live...but it's surely not the engine that will kill every other engine in the indie world, competitor should see it as an motivation to improove more.
fact is this can be super duper good for us users, because this is a competition like in every scene too. fast food, sport every scene has is big and little names...I'm sure acknex will not go under, I'm really curious about the updates that will follow during the development time of this game project of conitec. I think conitec will give good responses