diff --git a/.prospector.yml b/.prospector.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index 75f1e737b..000000000
--- a/.prospector.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,50 +0,0 @@
-# prospector configuration file
-
----
-
-output-format: grouped
-
-strictness: medium
-doc-warnings: false
-test-warnings: true
-member-warnings: false
-
-ignore-paths:
-  - docs
-  - reduce
-
-ignore-patterns:
-  - setup.py
-
-pyroma:
-  run: true
-  # pyroma gives errors in the setup.py file,
-  # thus we disable here these errors.
-  # This should not be happening, because
-  # prospector should be ignoring the setup.py
-  # file (see ignore-patterns above)
-  disable:
-    - PYR10
-    - PYR11
-    - PYRUNKNOWN
-
-pycodestyle:
-    full: true
-    options:
-      max-line-length: 159
-
-pydocstyle:
-    disable: [
-        # Disable because not part of PEP257 official convention:
-        # see http://pep257.readthedocs.io/en/latest/error_codes.html
-        D203,  # 1 blank line required before class docstring
-        D212,  # Multi-line docstring summary should start at the first line
-        D213,  # Multi-line docstring summary should start at the second line
-        D404,  # First word of the docstring should not be This
-    ]
-
-pylint:
-  disable: [
-    logging-fstring-interpolation,
-    logging-not-lazy,
-  ]
diff --git a/README.dev.md b/README.dev.md
index d26caa755..501cdc8cf 100644
--- a/README.dev.md
+++ b/README.dev.md
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ coverage report
 
 ## Linting
 
-We use [prospector](https://pypi.org/project/prospector/) with pyroma for linting. For running it locally, use `prospector` or `prospector <filepath_or_folderpath>` for specific files/folders.
+We use [ruff](https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/) for linting, sorting imports and formatting code. The configurations of `ruff` are set in [pyproject.toml](pyproject.toml) file.
 
 ## Versioning
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 118118cfe..e2a65db8f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -57,8 +57,6 @@ dependencies = [
 # development dependency groups
 test = [
     "pytest >= 7.4.0",
-    "pylint <= 2.17.5",
-    "prospector[with_pyroma] <= 1.10.2",
     "bump2version",
     "coverage",
     "pycodestyle",