I see some drama associated with Rust, but it's usually around people resisting its usage or adoption (the recent kerfuffle about Rust for Linux, for example), and not really that common within the community. But I could be missing something?
Zig is great, but it just isn't production ready.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36122270 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29343573 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29351837
The Ashley "Kill All Men" Williams drama was pretty bad. She had a relationship with a core Rust board member at the time so they added her on just because. Any discussion about her addition to the board was censored immediately, reddit mods removed and banned any topics and users mentioning her, etc.
Ashley is just one out of many, unfortunately. Other former and current top contributors share similar qualities. Those qualities tend to trigger unnecessary explosions like last year's https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/13vbd9v/on_the_rustco....
Also, Zig is set to release 1.0 beta in November.
As for Zig, I hope they make it. I think I kind of see why people are excited about it, but fundamentally the reason I'm not super hyped is that it doesn't seem to really enable anything new. It's far more expressive than C, but it doesn't make it easier to manage inherent complexity (to my understanding - haven't played with it a lot).
For example, the async problem still exists and still has absolutely no viable path forward, or even MVP approach.