The lightning bolt emoji and similar performance rhetoric is really popular in the Zig community. I doubt the similarity is intentional.
I think you mean zap-the-golang-logger conflicts with OWASP's ZAP, which was started in 2011 before the-golang-logger.
I'll just say it: there's always that person who has to come in and tell people how a projects name is named the same as some random thing in the universe, then scours the internets playing the "when was it first created" game. I'd say no one cares, but then there's 'that person' who clearly does! weird.
I don't particularly care, but it's lazy. It's nicer if people try and pick something unique and unambiguous in the domain, so searches don't clash. Obviously, that's not always possible, but in this case, I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt.
It’d be fun to see a component system name as a play on words based on the theater game zip-zap-zop.