Agreed. You can't completely avoid it as we're running on a framework (and libraries) that's based on C#, but we architect our code such that these messy edges

Agreed. You can't completely avoid it as we're running on a framework (and libraries) that's based on C#, but we architect our code such that these messy edges that interface with the outside world are implemented once, creating a nice walled garden for the rest of the F# code inside.