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Re:Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible wit... by jmtulloss on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @10:58AM (#13590173)
It was named that to match the DOM api[0], which React does whenever possible. The DOM api is probably named for the reason you state.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/cla...

Re:Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible wit... by rmetzler on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @01:17PM (#13591327)
And the reason why the DOM API uses className is: class is a reserved keyword in JavaScript for a long time.