[DevOps]: Consider replacing `flake8` linter with `ruff`

[tomvothecoder]

I saw xarray uses ruff for linting. It is supposedly much faster than flake8.

• https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff
• https://pythonspeed.com/articles/pylint-flake8-ruff/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/12ha6mc/ruff_one_python_linter_to_rule_them_all/