JavaFX Script is a compilable scripting language which allows you to quickly and easily write interactive graphical applications (also known as Rich Internet Appllications, or RIAs). JavaFX Script gets its heritage from both scripting languages, which offer fast and easy development with less of the armor provided by conventional languages, and object-oriented languages like Java, which offer the ability to build robust reusable components. It is aimed at moderately sized interactive graphical applications, rather than programming in the large. It does, however, have one feature that is more common in "bigger" languages: static (compile-time) typing. That is, before your program even runs, it is checked for incompatible relationships between data, helping you to find errors earlier.