Update to Go 1.18

[kneal]

Description

The new Go version is coming out soon and we should update after the first minor patch has been released. Additionally, there are some formatting changes to encourage people to use any instead of interface{}. We should try and get a new linter added to check for that in the Go files.

Value

Helps use get the latest and greatest security/feature updates and will help our code look like the community expectations.

Definition of Done

• all Go repos have been updated to 1.18.x
• linter has a check for interface{} to any (if it exists of course)

[wass3r]

additionally, we might be benefit from utilizing runtime/debug.ReadBuildInfo and maybe some of the new strings functions, and perhaps the new fuzzing ability for tests?

ref: https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.18

[kneal]

The fuzzing being in the STL code be useful in compiler as well. I think that would take some research and implantation experimentation tho.

[wass3r]

relevant: golangci/golangci-lint#2649 - looks like we need to wait for them to support 1.18

[wass3r]

we are on 1.19+