ARM chips have an instruction with JavaScript in the name

Why do ARM chips have an instruction with Javascript in the name (FJCVTZS)?.
FJCVTZS is “Floating-point Javascript Convert to Signed fixed-point, rounding toward Zero”. It is supported in Arm v8.3-A chips and later. Which is odd, because you don’t expect to see JavaScript…
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