3.5 years ago is the key. Xamarin has come a long way in the past 12 months, not to mention the past 42.
Developers who know this have grown considerably in that period as well.
On an aside, 90/hr for a competent dev is cheap. I know most people on HN don't make a salary that equates to that but freelancers have an entirely different set of concerns and 90 is low.
I've seen a lot of talk about how far Mono has gone in recent times but not much in writing. Do you have anything about the progress that was made? Blog posts, announcements, anecdotal evedence? I'm looking for stuff to show to the team so we could consider expanding our C# development to linux too.
Developers who know this have grown considerably in that period as well.
On an aside, 90/hr for a competent dev is cheap. I know most people on HN don't make a salary that equates to that but freelancers have an entirely different set of concerns and 90 is low.