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For making themes from scratch, the best choices out there in my opinion are:
Those three good to haves for any serious WordPress developer/themer.
As for the site itself, I strongly recommend to put some effort in defining security and backup policies from the very begining, before starting to optimize the website for speed, some good practices are:
Those are really the minimum.