Absolutely! For inspiration on how roaring bitmaps can be used in practice, check out https://roaringbitmap.org/. The blog post is part of a book I am writing on obscure data structures (https://pncnmnp.github.io/blogs/dsa-book.html), so explaining the history was a way to dive into the evolution of this topic and the limitations of each implementation, in order to motivate a SOTA.