I would be very careful about buying the $7K Mac Book Pro with the i9 processor. It is all over the news how screwed up it was with thermal throttling, not long after it even boots up. Major issue.
They released a firmware? fix for it this week, which helps a lot. But those who have taken the MBP apart and looked into it, say the design is crap and has serious problems.
I have been reading some of the test reports, sites have done today after the firmware fix. It has improved a lot but most say it is not where it should be. Many suspect the bad designing of the thermal management system is to blame. In which case there will never be a fix and you are paying a huge amount of money for the i9, for just a slight improvement in performance - because it can not reach its full potential in this build.

I don't think anyone here would be looking at a $7K MBP to just program with however. But... who knows.