Comment by kccqzy

The difference is that there is an SSH agent at all, whereas Emacs just uses the built-in Bourne shell.

Some people get an icky feeling where remote editing tools change the remote filesystem in any way that is not explicitly done by the user. A binary installation of Node is extra extra icky. (I don’t have Node installed anywhere on my computers; I avoid JS if possible and if not I prefer Deno.)