Oh, the possibilities! (What you can do in SSJS)
Although we are definitely biased in this statement, we still think it is very accurate. SSJS opens up SFMC to the power of custom solutions and development that AMPscript could never dream of doing. Just the capabilities of interaction with API calls and their responses alone puts SSJS beyond the capabilities of AMPscript.
AMPscript is more based on simple personalization, dynamic content, templating, and data lookups to custom objects and manipulations. It is not made for the levels of development and complex solutions you can get with SSJS. Sure, this sounds great and all, but it's all hot air unless we can prove it, right? So, let's prove it. To start, let's discuss arrays and objects.
Arrays and objects
Arrays and objects are one of the greatest reasons to utilize SSJS inside of the Marketing Cloud. They provide great capabilities around data storage and interaction that are far superior to what is available...