…and discussing whether .net is dead: No.
Even if Microsoft decides to scrape .net as their first class platform, there’s still a massive number of projects utilizing it. Heck, Windows Forms was supposed to be dead 2005 and it’s still rocking. And there’s Mono, too.
So why would you think .net is dead?
Probably because everyone has been wishing it to be dead for many years? >.>