Cruft - WikipediaThis article is about a computing term. For other uses, see Cruft (disambiguation). Cruft is a jargon word for anything that is left over, redundant and getting in the way. It is used particularly for defective, superseded, useless, superfluous, or dysfunctional elements in computer software. History[edit] Harvard Cruft Laboratory Around 1958, the term was used in the sense of "garbage" by student
