Is This Tech Dead?
Is This Tech Dead?
May 14, 2025Live
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Is .NET dead?

Deaditude Score:

19.7%
ⓘ How is this calculated?
Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead
> Still showing signs of life. How original.
*Data last collected: 10 May 2025, so it might be even worse now, sorry.

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🔬Component Breakdown

Dissecting the digital corpse
This is supposed to be an ad

Codebase Activity

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

Reddit Drama

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

Youtube Clickbaits

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

Stackoverflow copypasting

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

Job offering

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

Companies adoption

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

Hacker News Hype

Still Thriving
Alive0.0%Dead

⏱️ Tech Lifecycle Position

Is in its dynamic growth phase with strong momentum, active development, and expanding adoption among organizations.

INNOVATION
PEAK
OBSOLESCENCE
🚀
2002

GitHub Pulse

Active Development

Weekly Commit Activity

52 weeks agoNow
Stars
16,278
total stars
Forks
4,987
total forks
Open PRs
8,635
open pull requests
Recent Commits
399
last 30 days
Contributors
100
active developers
Pulse Check
Growing
trend assessment

Language Distribution

C#80.5%
C++10.2%
C7.7%
Visual Basic .NET0.4%
Assembly0.3%

Stack Overflow Analysis

Needs Help

Question Metrics

Total Questions
213
Answer Rate
31%
Acceptance Rate
18%
Growth
+29%
In the last 30 days

Recent Questions

How to get my JWT Security Token to authenticate
Unanswered29 views
c#.netnginx
Powershell Assembly Loading Issue (silent)
Unanswered16 views
.netpowershell
Issue with sending emails with MimeKit
Unanswered12 views
.netasp.net-web-apimimekit

🗣️ Reddit Echo Chamber

Still Breathing

Not dead yet, but the Reddit vultures are circling

Community Size

205,435
Subscribers
61
Active Users

Activity Metrics

359
Posts
30.3
Avg. Upvotes
Growth Trend
Rising
+69.3%
Strong momentum

Community Sentiment

RageMehFanboy
Perfectly Balanced
🚨

Migration Alert

3 mentions of migrating away from .NET detected in discussions. Just a few deserters, for now.

Popular Discussions

Last 30 days
Breakout, authored in C#, running on a real SNES
r/dotnet20 days ago
580(99%)41
Making SNES roms using C#
r/dotnet1 months ago
555(99%)40
CSharpier 1.0.0 is out now
r/dotnet21 days ago
404(96%)80
Open, Honest, Sustainable OSS But Still Criticised
r/dotnet26 days ago
369(96%)108
19 projects, 5 databases, 12 months of package updates, 21,001 tests
r/dotnet14 days ago
338(95%)77
Browse Reddit

💼 Job Market Pulse

Thriving

.NET devs are getting snatched up faster than PS5s at launch.

Global Job Distribution

🇺🇸United States
115,672
🇫🇷France
25,229
🇬🇧United Kingdom
13,076
🇮🇳India
13,055
🇩🇪Germany
7,470
🇨🇦Canada
6,197

Market Summary

180,699
Total Jobs
🏢
0
Companies Using It

Reality Check

Marketable Skill Alert!

.NET is still paying the bills in 6 countries. Silicon Valley approves.

Job metrics derived from search results. Actual availability may be worse.

Source: Adzuna

🔸 Hacker News Discourse

Barely Mentioned

.NET gets moderate attention on HN. Neither cool nor uncool - just meh.

Mentions

1,000
Posts

Community Interest

Average points68.1
Noteworthy

HN Verdict

Typical orange site discourse: pedantic corrections.
HN karma potential
6/10

Notable Discussions

Order bypoints
dnSpyEx: .NET debugger and assembly editor
3 months ago
20825
olduse.net
2 months ago
13715
Show HN: Blunderchess.net – blunder for your opponent every five moves
2 months ago
12639
Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 1
2 months ago
10636
BrainFlood: Runtime code generation via reflection in .NET
3 months ago
8625
Search on HN
"Remember that HN commenters once called React.js a terrible idea. Interpret accordingly."

▶️ YouTube Coverage

Some Content

.NET content exists on YouTube. So does flat earth theory.

Content Metrics

26
Videos
514.9K
Total Views
Content trend: Strong uptrend+37.5%

Average Engagement

19.8K
Views per Video
Low10K+ views

Creator Landscape

Top channels covering .NET:
Ed Andersen
Growing Channel
Questpond
Growing Channel
Coding Droplets
Small Creator

Popular Videos

Sorted byviews
2 months ago
1.5K353
2 months ago
1.5K170
1 months ago
39025
1 months ago
32047
Search on YouTube
"If there's no 3-hour tutorial, does the technology even exist?"YouTube

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