Yes and no. Maybe you have better examples of programming languages, but even Ruby/Rails, Python, etc have concepts that make sense for programmers that non programmers don't grasp. Think of it this way, if you give a good designer the Rails Book (or another one), he may be able to do something after a few weeks that may match (but very crudely) the app he thought off.
Now give the same designer Sketch/Figma, but allow him to sprinkle some logic in ready made blocks (if/elses, loops, save object, etc) and he will get much closer to what he wanted.
Is the second approach better? Well most programmers will scream at the database model, etc. For the designer, he did in 2-3 days what would take him weeks and get away with something better.
I think a lot of programmers look at their experience and think 'no-code' will never work, but (where my experience comes) 20+ years of doing software development as a consultant, what I found is 80-90% of most software share most of their functionality, and the remaining percent are in many ways doable with just a bit of 'scripting'
Now give the same designer Sketch/Figma, but allow him to sprinkle some logic in ready made blocks (if/elses, loops, save object, etc) and he will get much closer to what he wanted.
Is the second approach better? Well most programmers will scream at the database model, etc. For the designer, he did in 2-3 days what would take him weeks and get away with something better.
I think a lot of programmers look at their experience and think 'no-code' will never work, but (where my experience comes) 20+ years of doing software development as a consultant, what I found is 80-90% of most software share most of their functionality, and the remaining percent are in many ways doable with just a bit of 'scripting'