diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 5eb3e231342e..2e657df3b042 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -27907,7 +27907,7 @@ in
   wrapNeovimUnstable = callPackage ../applications/editors/neovim/wrapper.nix { };
   wrapNeovim = neovim-unwrapped: lib.makeOverridable (neovimUtils.legacyWrapper neovim-unwrapped);
   neovim-unwrapped = callPackage ../applications/editors/neovim {
-    # neovim doesn't build with luajit on aarch64:
+    # neovim doesn't build with luajit on aarch64-darwin :
     # ./luarocks init
     # PANIC: unprotected error in call to Lua API (module 'luarocks.core.hardcoded' not found:
     #         no field package.preload['luarocks.core.hardcoded']
@@ -27931,7 +27931,7 @@ in
     # See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/129099
     # Possibly related: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/7879
     lua =
-      if stdenv.isAarch64 then lua5_1 else
+      if (stdenv.isDarwin && stdenv.isAarch64) then lua5_1 else
       luajit;
   };