Nix develop on macbook m1

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I am trying to run nix develop on a repository on my m1 equipped macbook. Specifically the https://github.com/rust-skia/rust-skia repository. (according to the commit log it should work with m1)
But when I do I get this error:

error: flake 'git+file:///Users/mbust/Projects/rust-skia' does not provide attribute 'devShells.aarch64-darwin.default', 'devShell.aarch64-darwin', 'packages.aarch64-darwin.default' or 'defaultPackage.aarch64-darwin'
       Did you mean devShell?

I have no Idea how to interpret this. Am I missing an input for my system flake?
Or do I need to make changes to their flake.nix?

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They are using devShell.$system which has been deprecated with nix 2.7 or so. Might be that 2.9 finally dropped it.

They should use devShells.$system.default instead.

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They probably followed the tutorial on the wiki.
https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes#Super_fast_nix-shell

What do I need to change in their flake.nix to make this work?

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Which was absolutely correct 16 months ago when the flake.nix got touched for the last time.

And the wiki probably did not got updated in the last 4 weeks since the release of 2.9

edit I adjusted the wikis example and I hope I got the flake utils stuff correct

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Removing the flake.lock file finally did the trick.
Now what remains is to see if it builds with the new deps.

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