Instead of requiring the user to install the right version of the tool in their
.bin folder, create a shim that automatically runs the right version of the
tool. This has several benefits:
- it works out of the box with no setup required (the tool will be automatically
downloaded and compiled the first time it is used)
- no work needed for developers when we bump the golangci-lint version
- it works in working copies that are used in different environments (e.g.
locally on a Mac, or inside a dev container)
Co-authored-by: kyu08 <49891479+kyu08@users.noreply.github.com>
... and configure it to run the same checks as golangci-lint.
It may seem redundant to have two linter checks enabled; however, there are
reasons to have both. golangci-lint is what we are running on CI, and it has a
lot more linters than gopls, so we want to run it locally too to get the same
coverage. The linter that is built into gopls is only staticcheck, so that's
redundant; but it has the advantage that the warnings appear a bit faster
(golangci-lint runs only on save, and with a bit of delay), and in particular it
provides quick fixes for some of the checks, which is quite convenient.
