I'm coming to the view that microblogs (tweets) and normal blogs are too time focused. There's a pressure for novel ideas, ideas must be polished, and they assume you don't want to edit old ideas.
Perhaps a bliki is a better model?
Docstrings are an awesome features that make languages more ergonomic. They help you understand code on the first read, and there's pressure to write them when it's part of the language.
I suspect you can even get away with awful syntax if docstrings are ubiquitous.
Is the fastcall calling convention faster?
https://stackoverflow.com/q/2188680 (it depends on arch and how sensitive your app is to register pressure)