I want to use it programming so I don’t get eye strain from staring at a screen all day, and the display is mostly white text on a black background anyway.

Obviously I invert that on an e-ink display. It’s white on black is to reduce the amount of white light that I get blasted with. When you’re programming most of the screen is blank because each individual line of code isn’t really that long in most cases it’ll be shorter than in English sentence.