I've said it before, I'll say it again. We should just stop using the term JavaScript. It's a bad choice of name and always has been.

It's caused way too much confusion over the years making people wrongly associate it with Java. My guess would be that associations exactly why Oracle doesn't want to give it up.

I would like to say go back to the original name of LiveScript from before Netscape tried to woo Sun, but the name LiveScript has been co-opted.

Something else with a J would probably be the least painful. JScript is permanently associated with Microsoft's terrible IE implementation. I offer up "JaScript" as it sounds largely like JavaScript but said with a drawl while retaining "JS".

Heck, I'll call it ECMAScript if that's what it takes. I'd rather not, but it's better than "JavaScript"