🌱 Add addtional linters

[tech-geek29]

What this PR does / why we need it:

Part of our ongoing effort to enable more linters to take the human equation out of enforcing and catching minor issues.
This enables the exportloopref, ifshort, and nilerr linters.

• errcheck
• exportloopref
• godot
• gosec
• importas
• ifshort
• nilerr
• stylecheck
• whitespace

This PR also removes golint linter as it is deprecated.

Which issue(s) this PR fixes (optional, in fixes #(, fixes #<issue_number>, ...) format, will close the issue(s) when PR gets merged):
Related #2471

Release note:

NONE

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/lgtm

[sedefsavas]

LGTM after rebase.

[tech-geek29]

LGTM after rebase.

Rebase done!

[sedefsavas]

Thanks @tech-geek29
/lgtm
/approve

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