What are some good developer tools to start out with?
You need a good text editor you're comfortable working with. The rest depends on what you're going to do and on the programming language.
One that I recommend is Microsoft Visual Studio Code. It is a text editor that looks nice and has syntax support for tons of languages. There are others out there, if you are dead set against using Microsoft products, but it is available for OSX (it does require 10.10) and Windows and Linux.
One that I recommend is Microsoft Visual Studio Code. It is a text editor that looks nice and has syntax support for tons of languages. There are others out there, if you are dead set against using Microsoft products, but it is available for OSX (it does require 10.10) and Windows and Linux.