no that doesn't mean we are going back to the same market presence, indeed. Do we have or will we have a useful-enough market presence?

Here are some more companies: https://github.com/azzamsa/awesome-lisp-companies/ (only the ones we know about)

Now compare that list to the amount of companies using the top languages listed here,

https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2025/06/18/language-rankings-1-2...

Hence my niche remark, naturally there are a few using it, otherwise Allegro and Lispworks would have filled for bankruptcy already.