A language without a large stdlib pushes this that functionality into (transitive) dependencies. I hope more language will adopt batteries included approach.
I think the sweet spot is having an ecosystem of "blessed" libraries that are reviewed for security and quality, but are versioned independently of the language, and maintained by subject matter experts.
It lets you take a slice `&[T]` and return a slice with a known number of elements`&[T; N]`. tiny-skia was probably using this to get some SIMD optimizations.
As of Jan 2026, this seems to be in the standard library under slice::as_array https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.slice.html#method.as...