README: make it clear that golint is deprecated and frozen For golang/go#38968. Change-Id: I52fe4f2934910600c89ac705a7fb3c57b4844a9d Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/lint/+/318189 Trust: Daniel Martí <mvdan@mvdan.cc> Reviewed-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@golang.org>
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ba4956f..989b1dc 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +**NOTE:** Golint is [deprecated and frozen](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/38968). +There's no drop-in replacement for it, but tools such as [Staticcheck](https://staticcheck.io/) +and `go vet` should be used instead. + Golint is a linter for Go source code. [](https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/lint)