Use golangci-lint instead of golint

[per1234]

golint has been deprecated.

[codecov]

Codecov Report

All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests ✅

Project coverage is 90.05%. Comparing base (b9f5a82) to head (6bf30f3).
Report is 10 commits behind head on main.

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[per1234]

The codebase produces many linting errors from golangci-lint, even though it was passing golint. I think this should be put on hold until #761 is merged as the fixes for the linting errors might cause merge conflicts with the work done in that PR.