Go master, the upcoming Go 1.21, has had its merge window open for over
two weeks at this point, and it seems calmer at this point.
ALso update staticcheck to its latest release, which supports Go 1.20.
Following the best practices from upstream.
In particular, the "txt" extension is somewhat ambiguous.
This may cause some conflicts due to the git diff noise,
but hopefully we won't ever do this again.