F3 was primarily developed by Chris Oliver, who became a Sun employee through their acquisition of SeeBeyond Technology Corporation in September 2005.

[2] On September 27, 2010 Stephen Chin announced Visage a declarative user-interface language based on the JavaFX Script with enhancements.

It provided automatic data-binding, mutation triggers and declarative animation, using an expression language syntax (all code blocks potentially yield values.)

Although F3 began life as an interpreted language, prior to the first preview release (Q3 2008) JavaFX Script had shifted focus to being predominantly compiled.

JavaFX Script's declarative style for constructing user interfaces can provide shorter and more readable source code than the more verbose series of method calls required to construct an equivalent interface if written in JavaFX Script's procedural style.